Recent content by dair

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    Tour de France 2015 Stage 16: Bourg-de-Péage-Gap 201km

    I can't think of another sport where there is a substantive risk of death but no rules to help avoid or at least mitigate the risk. F1 often gets criticised for being far too ready to implement expulsions and time penalties for causing a collision and reckless moves but it does so because it is...
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    2015 Tour de France: Stage 2: Utrecht › Neeltje Jans (166k)

    The problem Cavendish faces is that he has never developed the roadcraft that most sprinters learn through their career. He never needed it. He was both the fastest man in the peleton by a considerable distance and had a drilled team deliver him perfectly to the release point when he was with...