He was handing an empty bidon back to the soigneur
Yeah, cos they all do that, all the time. No doubt that's excuse they will go to appeal with. Not that they need one, when they have the Bardet precedent.
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Not when the peloton is cranking out 60+km/h and the sprint trains are setting up. Could possibly be brought a bit closer to the finish, but it's essentially a safety issue. Besides, everyone knows it's there, you just need to make sure you got someone back to the car at around 25k out and get stocked up.
“Road racing was over and the UCI had banned my riding positions on the track, so it was like ‘Jings, crivvens, help ma Boab, what do I do now? I know, I’ll go away and be depressed for 10 years’.”
Sure, but it's not like those on the side of the road take the bottle at 60. The others move past them. It's no different really to someone doing their turn and then pulling off to the side. This isn't going to be the hill I want to die on defending, but it seems needlessly rulesy.
It is a bit odd that you have the season destroyed, and luckily they’ve managed to put on the biggest race of them all and they don’t feel the need to make a bit of a spectacle.
He was handing an empty bidon back to the soigneur
Yeah, cos they all do that, all the time. No doubt that's excuse they will go to appeal with. Not that they need one, when they have the Bardet precedent.
Except, they aren't going to appeal.
Team My Man 2022:
Antwan Tolhoek, Sam Oomen, Tom Dumoulin, Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Benoît Cosnefroy, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Romain Bardet
Who exactly? When it comes to riders, it just seems like some are lacking form; like Sagan or even Bennett when considering how he has been dropped off regularly, or Ineos so far.
I get a feeling that the teams are largely just going to censored about during all the stages this year ( barring stage 20) releasing their sprinters as and when appropriate, to keep the finishes mildly interesting, then pin everything on the only TT in this year’s Tour, for the G.C. with all G.C. contenders ( remaining ) on insignificant time gaps at the start of stage 20, then censored about all the way back to Paris, releasing any remaining sprinters for a ‘grandstand finish’. That’s if Covid allows it to reach Paris.
"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
They should have known better, it's not a new rule. If the rule is there you can't just arbitrarily ignore it because it's the yellow jersey, or because a Frenchman is in yellow. Froome got the same penalty for an illegal feed in 2013 while in yellow (I had to look up the year and the penalty).
Kennaugh on the ITV highlights reckons the soigneur might have parked in the wrong place perhaps.
Not feeling this tbh ... Seems harsh but whatever .b
"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
I wonder if Yates will actually put on the yellow jersey tomorrow.
He’ll get fined, at least, if he doesn’t
Plenty have inherited the jersey in the past due to another's misfortune and not worn it. I'll also caveat my comments in that I have been out helping with our club TT so only just seen this news, and hadn't seen that Adam seems to have been given the jersey on the podium.
I wonder if Yates will actually put on the yellow jersey tomorrow.
He’ll get fined, at least, if he doesn’t
Plenty have inherited the jersey in the past due to another's misfortune and not worn it. I'll also caveat my comments in that I have been out helping with our club TT so only just seen this news, and hadn't seen that Adam seems to have been given the jersey on the podium.
I think he said in his interview that he would be wearing it.
When Alaphilippe was interviewed about the incident, he seemed a bit embarrassed, and more so when he was asked if he was aiming at tomorrow's stage – which will now of course be easier as not in yellow and the team not needing to control things.
On the other hand, it was DS Tom Steels birthday today, and maybe the backup team started celebrating with the Champagne a bit early, and then lost track of how far they were already along the route.
The last time Yates was given yellow was also in the kind of circumstances in which you don't want it, when froome went running up that hill. It was then taken off him before he wore it though.
There's no debate here. Everyone knows the rule. They just messed up.
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No doubt that's excuse they will go to appeal with.
Not that they need one, when they have the Bardet precedent.
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The Vikings are coming!
This isn't going to be the hill I want to die on defending, but it seems needlessly rulesy.
Antwan Tolhoek, Sam Oomen, Tom Dumoulin, Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Benoît Cosnefroy, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Romain Bardet
Kennaugh on the ITV highlights reckons the soigneur might have parked in the wrong place perhaps.
I'll also caveat my comments in that I have been out helping with our club TT so only just seen this news, and hadn't seen that Adam seems to have been given the jersey on the podium.
On the other hand, it was DS Tom Steels birthday today, and maybe the backup team started celebrating with the Champagne a bit early, and then lost track of how far they were already along the route.
There's no debate here. Everyone knows the rule. They just messed up.
(from a purely selfish perspective I am gutted - gutted, I tell you - that his cousin wasn't called Jerome)