Chuffy
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a) Why not mention it? The attack was the dominating feature of todays stage.
b) To the bold:- a chap could be forgiven for thinking you have an agenda here...
Tour de France 2012 (with SPOILERS)
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b) To the bold:- a chap could be forgiven for thinking you have an agenda here...
Chuffy
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Just watching the highlights again - Rolland attacks at the precise point when the race seems to have lost focus and discussions are being had. Watch Wiggy chatting to someone as Rolland attacks, think it might be Nibali. Also, watch the reaction from the Sky riders as Rolland goes - he must have known that the racing had stopped for a reason and they are not impressed.
WIggo Crax is no relation to me.Clever tactics by sky. Froome in his interview, saying if Wiggo crax he ll ride with the contenders and crack them, Sky saying to the contenders don t bother attacking we ve got it covered.
a) The attack was the dominating feature, not the fact that the whole pelotón held back when the race was over anyway.
b) My agenda was to call out their ridiculous Facebook feed.
Chuffy
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These modern shorts are sooo thin.
lukesdad
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I thought the resemblance was uncanny, mind i dont think wiggo can destroy a lamb shank to your exacting standards
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Its a wierd one. Last year Voeckler (also Europcar...) was lionised for his tour efforts but if I remember correctly, he gained the yellow jersey and crucial time on a day to St. Flour when the racing was toned down after Hoogerland and Flecha's accident (did Vino also go off that day). He certainly seemed quite opportunistic at the time. Maybe Rolland you can say is quite young and just did something he now regrets - certainly Brad is getting a lot of respect now but he wasn't when he turned the air blue a few days ago.
I think there's also a comparison at some point to Lance Armstrong very deliberately caning it with his team and gaingin a decisive advantage when either Zulle or Ulrich had a mechanical (at the bottom of a climb in the first tour he won ... ? Dunno exactly).
I guess it's one thing when a mechanical happens that your team or the rider is responsible for, like Schleck's chain slip. When an outside party like a spectator intervenes in the racing, it's just a lottery that makes a mockery of the event if you seek to benefit from it.
Kiwiavenger
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How many tacks just in one tyre on the support car!
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Chuffy
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It's all so subjective, isn't it? Codes of behaviour, rather than hard and fast rules. I rather like that, it matters more when riders chose to behave that way, rather than being obliged by rules.
What happened to Hoogerland (and Flecha) was an individual act of misfortune - I don't think you'd stop for that, especially in a break. The tacks were an attack on the whole peloton and the peloton (led by the MJ, because that's the MJ's responsibility in that kind of situation) reacted.
Armstrong caning it?I think you mean La Grande Motte in 2009 and it was his own teammate he was attacking...
Chuffy
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Smokin Joe
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The racing was over? Do you think Wiggins or Nibali gave a stuff about the stage? They are looking to the overall and had they not sat up they could have put Evans out of contention completely.
Do keep up.
And the problem with that is what exactly?
But you're not calling out anything. It's not as if Sky are doing anything out of the ordinary there. If Wiggins posted the same thing, or tweeted it, I might agree with you.
Cycling is a business. Sky have sponsors. They draw attention to themselves in the name of advertising. But you know that.
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Well yes there's that example of internecine warfare but that was crosswinds and HTC rather than Lance.Armstrong caning it?I think you mean La Grande Motte in 2009 and it was his own teammate he was attacking...
I think it was actually 1999, stage 2 when a crash on the Passage du Gois caught out the majority of the peloton and gave Lance 6 mins over Zulle.
Its a different type of incident but it was consciously exploited by the USPS team.
And my point about Voeckler was he seemed to use the crash as an opportunity to attack the breakaway.
I refer you to my early remark - respect the tradition and gain respect. The tour is no place for the '2nd place is 1st looser' attitude!
