biking_fox
Guru
- Location
- Manchester
Porte wasn't watching. He wasn't going that fast and could have swerved (probably into the crowd).
Tour de France 2016 **SPOILERS**
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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Crowd booing the decision as it's announced over the loudspeakers.
Smokin Joe
Squire
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
Much as I want to see Froome win, and I think on balance the decision is probably the correct one a little bit of me feels uneasy about it.
Stuff happens...
Stuff happens...
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Doesn't matter now but yes ... Its nonsense.I don't
It would not have been a "blight on his career", that's just nonsense. Hyberbole?
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
Onwards. TT mayhem tomorrow 
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Froome said "What a finale! Ventoux is full of surprises. The moto was blocked. All three of us met the moto and there was another moto behind that broke my bike, so I continued on foot." "I had no bike. I knew that the car with my other bike was minutes behind. Too far." "I'm very content with the jury decision. It was correct. Thanks to them. Thanks to the Tour organisation." (also in French, but he speaks slower and the interviewer asked more questions, which let me catch up)
oldfatfool
Guru
IF Yates was awarded the Yellow Jersey and accepted it would be all the general public ever remembered about him, like all people remember Lance for is EPOI don't
It would not have been a "blight on his career", that's just nonsense. Hyberbole?
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Sensible decision - it looked crazy.
Hopefully this will prompt the organisers to do something.
Hopefully this will prompt the organisers to do something.
David Walsh agrees that Yates would not have wanted yellow in such circumstances. However, there is pretty much controversy every year. Froome fell the right side of this one.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Much as I don't particularly want Froome to win, I think it was probably fair enough.
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
It was the right thing to do. Regardless of who was in yellow beforehand, they couldn't have allowed that chaos to have decided, or had a major impact on, the final result. If one of them had a mechanical, that was one thing- but that crash in that situation affected riders who would otherwise have made their way up the mountain without issue.
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
Nah, that's cos all Lance should be remembered for is being a dirty cheat.
It would have been a great pub quiz question in 2030: which British cyclist, who went on to win 5 Tours, 4 Giros, and 2 World Championships won his first yellow jersey due to a mental crowd/moto crash/rider running incident in 2016?
