TDF 2017: Stage 4- Mondorf-les-Bains - Vittel 207.5kms *Spoilers*

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  • vpnikolov
    vpnikolov Posts: 568
    Sagan DQd!
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    smithy21 wrote:
    Racing incident. Nothing to see.

    Move along.

    Dangerous riding from Sagan and Demare minimum should be relegated from that result.
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  • vpnikolov
    vpnikolov Posts: 568
    http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racin ... nce-339582

    "Peter Sagan disqualified from Tour de France"
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    vpnikolov wrote:
    Sagan DQd!

    From the stage I assume. Not the race..
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    DQ'd :shock: :shock:

    From the Tour!
    _
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Gweeds wrote:
    vpnikolov wrote:
    Sagan DQd!

    From the stage I assume. Not the race..
    No. The race.

    He was in the wrong, but not that much in the wrong.
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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    RichN95 wrote:
    Gweeds wrote:
    vpnikolov wrote:
    Sagan DQd!

    From the stage I assume. Not the race..
    No. The race.

    He was in the wrong, but not that much in the wrong.

    Bloody hell. That is a shock.
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    Wow! That's a big call.
  • Slipshoddy
    Slipshoddy Posts: 9
    So Sagan's been given the elbow?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Hopefully the Tour organisers will set up a distress helpline for the media like they do for fans when a boyband splits up.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    They've obviously viewed it as equivalent to removing your hand from the bars to push another rider. In truth it probably is.
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  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Haha McEwen calling it a DQ..
    Hahahah rich coming from him :)
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    Sagan " hors course" anyone seen press release or jury statement?
  • pat1cp
    pat1cp Posts: 766
    That was an awful stage followed by a chaotic finale, followed by a poor decision I would say.

    There's been far worse ding dong's in the past.
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  • dav1d1
    dav1d1 Posts: 653
    That's a big call is that! Didn't agree at all with what he did, as from overhead you can see cav on the wheel Infront and Sagan swings right and also side by side before the elbow comes out, don't agree with the DQ but agree with the point deduction
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    That's a ridiculous decision. The points deduction would have more than covered it.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Vino'sGhost wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Haha McEwen calling it a DQ..
    Hahahah rich coming from him :)

    Called it right though ;)
    _
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    BBC reporting it now, so seems to be true. Massive call - and not necessarily a good one for the race - but I don't think Sagan can have too many complaints from the overhead.
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  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    kiwimatt wrote:
    Sagan is hardly boxed in. Could have easily conceded to the left. Bad.
    DD5uhSyWsAEuH8p.jpg

    Alternately why should he concede? It's a race.
  • onyourright
    onyourright Posts: 509
    I know no-one cares about the number-one GC rider amid this excitement, but did Froome hit the ground today?
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    It was a chaotic sprint. Incidents happen. Dock points, move on.

    Utterly stupid to DQ him.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Sagan kicked off?????? Wtf
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    edited July 2017
    OnYourRight wrote:
    I know no-one cares about the number-one GC rider amid this excitement, but did Froome hit the ground today?
    Froomes not even the number one GC rider in his team right now lololol
  • germcevoy
    germcevoy Posts: 414
    You see worse than that at any big race go unpunished. Relegation to last on the stage with a points deduction would have did the job. A full DQ seems like a crazy decision. Bouhanni and Cav have got up to worse many a time.

    The race will be duller without Sagan. A shame.
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    OnYourRight wrote:
    I know no-one cares about the number-one GC rider amid this excitement, but did Froome hit the ground today?
    G said that they both did but are both ok as managed to scrub lots of speed off before hitting the deck.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Poor Guillaume Van Keirsbulck. 190km solo and now no-one gives a toss. He probably won't even get his photo in L'Equipe.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Every Thursday there's a lot worse than that at castlecoome
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    Germcevoy wrote:
    You see worse than that at any big race go unpunished. Relegation to last on the stage with a points deduction would have did the job. A full DQ seems like a crazy decision. Bouhanni and Cav have got up to worse many a time.

    The race will be duller without Sagan. A shame.

    Dunno - we at least have a battle for the Peter Sagan Jersey.
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  • hypster
    hypster Posts: 1,229
    Cycling News also reporting Sagan DQ'd out of the TdF. Maybe the commisaires reviewed footage of the earlier GC crash and decided he was responsible for that as well as proposed by others.
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    RichN95 wrote:
    Poor Guillaume Van Keirsbulck. 190km solo and now no-one gives a toss. He probably won't even get his photo in L'Equipe.
    Will probably pick up first week's Pédaleur de Charme so not all bad!

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