2011 Tour de France Stage 1: Passage du Gois - Mont des Alouettes 191.5 km

[GJB123]

Not too much decided yet. If Contador can get within a minute after the mountains, in the ITT he can still finish it off. The race will just be that much more spectacular within Contador not able to wait as long as possible.

Regards
GJ

 

[Dutchsmurf]

Apparently Contador (read Riis probably) has requested the time difference to be adjusted to 34 seconds because he was held up by the second fall. Jury is expected to decide on this 'soon'.

 

[The Hitch]

Apparently Contador (read Riis probably) has requested the time difference to be adjusted to 34 seconds because he was held up by the second fall. Jury is expected to decide on this 'soon'.

Thankfully someone grows the balls and the brains to appeal this.

Do you have a source?

Hopefully he gets those steak lawyers on this

 

[roundabout]

Apparently Contador (read Riis probably) has requested the time difference to be adjusted to 34 seconds because he was held up by the second fall. Jury is expected to decide on this 'soon'.

Hopefully the appeal will be heard in August.


August 2012.

 

[Dutchsmurf]

Thankfully someone grows the balls and the brains to appeal this.

Do you have a source?

Hopefully he gets those steak lawyers on this

The dutch news site nu.nl was reporting it. Seems their source is a Spanish news paper. Link.

And if he puts those steak lawyers on this, 'soon' might mean 'before the end of the 2013 TdF'

 

[The Hitch]

Hopefully the appeal will be heard in August.


August 2012.

Eskimo Tom would stand to benefit as well

 

[roundabout]

Yeah, but on a broader scale it's somewhat ironic that the people who have been chanting 'don't blame us, those are the rules' for months now want another set of rules bent (even if that's quite logical and understandable).

 

[Cimber]

Cos its Contador they will overule is appeal. Had it been AS on the other hand...

Anyways, if that 2nd crash truly did slow him down it is only fair if he gets the time loss reduced, cos it was a fall within the last 3km after all.

 

[The Hitch]

Yeah, but on a broader scale it's somewhat ironic that the people who have been chanting 'don't blame us, those are the rules' for months now want another set of rules bent (even if that's quite logical and understandable).

Ah crap ive been confusing you with hrotha due to the avatars now.

Point being, you are just upset that Contador got you a Rebbelin avatar

 

[roundabout]

Nah, if it were up to me Contador can have his seconds back.

 

[Midnightfright]

I don't think they will change it now. They need to save face and it would be admitting they had made a farse of the situation. Why couldn't they of changed this last night. Surely its not difficult.

 

[Cimber]

I don't think they will change it now. They need to save face and it would be admitting they had made a farse of the situation. Why couldn't they of changed this last night. Surely its not difficult.

Ye and I dont understand why Saxo didnt appeal last night aldry,

 

[Cimber]

SBS rejects that they have appealed:

http://www.sporten.dk/cykling/saxo-bank-afviser-klage-over-tidstab
(its in Danish so use google translate or something)

 

[The Hitch]

What the hell is going on here. Do other teams have a gun to Saxo and EE's heads telling them not to appeal.

 

[Cimber]

Maybe it was Euskatel who appealed?

 

[woodie]

Bradly McGee said he spoke to the race jury director that night and was told nothing could be done. So they tried to appeal but it would be no use because the rules are there with a precedent and have been followed.

 

[greenedge]

Cadel's team did the job, followed in the initial confusion by RS and OPL. Nice work that's a good enough buffer for their GC hopes. As long as they don't get the same happen to them they should be fine this week. ( Pls not another crash for evans. )

 

[No_Balls]

How can one not appeal?

 

[Captain_Cavman]

Well done to the race officials. They got every decision spot on, even to the extent of being a bit lenient with the gaps for those that made the final climb but were slightly gapped.

Shame for those that were held up by the second crash, but that's cycling.

Who would have guessed that such a mundane looking stage would generate so much chatter?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

They dropped poor Zeits at the Gulf of Guinea
He's not too far of Sao Tome and Principe