A question for you sages

Frank the tank

I'd never thought of this and never heard it asked.

Is it possible to be eliminated (timed out) of the tour in a time trial?

I ask as I'm reading "rough ride" and in it Paul Kimmage says he finished his TT EIGHT MINUTES behind the stage winner.

iainf72

Yes indeed it is.

RichN95.

Yes, but it's a generous time limit - 25% of the winners time, I think, compared to around 14% for a mountain stage.

Stephen Roche once got eliminated in a Team Time Trial when he missed the start and had to ride in on his own a few minutes behind his team.

Yellow Peril

Frank the tank wrote:

I'd never thought of this and never heard it asked.

Is it possible to be eliminated (timed out) of the tour in a time trial?

I ask as I'm reading "rough ride" and in it Paul Kimmage says he finished his TT EIGHT MINUTES behind the stage winner.

A good read especially as we reach this stage of the tour as to just how difficult this race is. Having said that a lot of the peleton were on rocket fuel in Kimmage's day.

Frank the tank

Thanks fellas, I thought that it would be the case but I wondered if it had ever happened in a ITT.

I've been laid up for a few week recently and I've read quite a few cycling books.

afx237vi

Robbie Hunter:

http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/ra ... aceid=4079

Had a saddle sore and rode the whole thing without sitting down.

esafosfina

I'm not sure if the rules and regs read the same today, but in 'my era' (ffs!) it used to be discretional in a TT stage... obviously if you were taking the piss you'd get eliminated, but if it was touch and go the 'jury' would usually waive the 'time-limit'... although I once caught a four minute-man in a 20km TT in Tour de L'Oise!!! In the first 10km!!!

emadden

I think kimmage was speaking of the 87 Tour and the TT from Samaur to Futuroscope... That TT was 85km long and took 2 hours... Incredible!

A bit of nostalgia here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J12wt32wU-M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E851Nw1L ... ure=relmfu


Also, I think the rules state that you cant get eliminated in a prologue

dsoutar

emadden wrote:

I think kimmage was speaking of the 87 Tour and the TT from Samaur to Futuroscope... That TT was 85km long and took 2 hours... Incredible!

A bit of nostalgia here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J12wt32wU-M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E851Nw1L ... ure=relmfu


Also, I think the rules state that you cant get eliminated in a prologue

Now that would be embarrassing !!

RichN95.

dsoutar wrote:

emadden wrote:

Also, I think the rules state that you cant get eliminated in a prologue

Now that would be embarrassing !!

In 1989, the defending champion, Pedro Delgado, missed his start and lost nearly three minutes in the prologue, which under normal TT rules would have seen him eliminated.

I can't be sure, but I think Chris Boardman is the only person to abandon in a prologue, although Matt White once crashed in the warm up and abandoned before the prologue (but was replaced by a late sub).

emadden

Some more nostalgia: 1989 Prologue in Luxembourg where Delgado missed the start :-)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB98tZjDr8s

mm1

To answer the original question, yes. Cozy Beehive has some interesting analysis http://cozybeehive.blogspot.co.uk/2012/ ... stage.html

a 28mph ride in the prologue would have meant elimination!