Tour de France 2017 ***SPOILERS***

[Fight.The.Power]

And if it had been Demare instead of Sagan... Quelle domage.

Bien sur ! C'est La Guerre !

 

[Tynan]

eh, who gave the initial penalty of the placing and points etc and who later disqualified him?

ah well and there was me ruing not picking him for my velo team

lord knows my team is a lost cause but Valverde, Sagan and Cav? out has to be helpful

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

He has "form" does Sagan, Vantomme got a shoulder charge in Gent-Wevelgem earlier in the year

 

[Dayvo]

I'm a Cav fan, but he has history, too.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I'm going to have to go revise the PTP scoring, bollocks

 

[roadrash]

eh, who gave the initial penalty of the placing and points etc and who later disqualified him?

ah well and there was me ruing not picking him for my velo team

lord knows my team is a lost cause but Valverde, Sagan and Cav? out has to be helpful

I just said the same to mrs roadrash, penalty given then later changed to disqualified and in such a short time, does seem unusual,

 

[Fight.The.Power]

I just said the same to mrs roadrash, penalty given then later changed to disqualified and in such a short time, does seem unusual,

Looks like further analysis puts him at the centre of the first crash too.

 

[Buddfox]

I just said the same to mrs roadrash, penalty given then later changed to disqualified and in such a short time, does seem unusual,

According to the BBC this was because Dimension Data challenged the initial penalty. I wasn't aware that there was a right of appeal.

 

[Dayvo]

According to the BBC this was because Dimension Data challenged the initial penalty. I wasn't aware that there was a right of appeal.

That's going to set a precedent.

 

[Fight.The.Power]

According to the BBC this was because Dimension Data challenged the initial penalty. I wasn't aware that there was a right of appeal.

There isn't. That's BBC bullshit news for you.

 

[rich p]

I'm not sure French bashing for hypothetical situations is any help. Just a shame that for us spectators, the sideshow sprints will be castrated by absences and the green jersey fight is lessened by Sagan' s gardening leave. Hey ho, the GC might kick off tomorrow!

 

[dragon72]

And just when some were making the pie-in-the-sky suggestion that Sagan in Yellow on the Champs could happen. I guess we'll never know now.

 

[MikeG]

I'm not sure that Sagan was as guilty as we all first thought. Have a look at this.

 

[rowdin]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXwZczGqWls

 

[Dayvo]

I'm not sure that Sagan was as guilty as we all first thought. Have a look at this.

I agree with that fully, although I didn't suspect anything iffy at all - just an unfortunate part of mass sprint and high speed finishes.

Cav came up on the blind-side of Sagan. If you don't know someone's there, how can you deliberately 'attack' them?