2013 Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey (2.HC) 21st - 28th April

[Dazed and Confused]

at least the crash gives us something to discuss.....

so Kroupis is the 8th best sprinter on Orica?

 

[theyoungest]

Ridiculous. Even when Blanco does everything right they manage to fu.ck it up with 600m to go dragging half the field with them.

They just have no business in bunch sprints. Even when they sign the best leadout in the world, it all goes to smithereens.

 

[jens_attacks]

legendary rabobank.

tour of turkey agan delivers with the view, superb. the racing meh as always
tomorrow should be funny though

 

[Gloin22]

So Blanco just crashed 90% of peleton. Ohhhh, good old Rabobank spirit lives within this team

 

[ILovecycling]

Oh Im a bit worried about what they'll do in Tour sprints

 

[Pentacycle]

Oh Im a bit worried about what they'll do in Tour sprints

They'll gift the Tour sprints to real sprinters' teams by not sending a train.

 

[theyoungest]

Oh Im a bit worried about what they'll do in Tour sprints

Nothing. They won't bring a sprinter (maybe Renshaw, but what's the use).

 

[Dazed and Confused]

They'll gift the Tour sprints to real sprinters' teams by not sending a train.

there will be others around to cause havoc, no doubt.

 

[jyhjyh]

The crash on a short video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pibKcq_RJs

 

[Ferminal]

there will be others around to cause havoc, no doubt.

Yes, I wonder how many GC riders will fall victim to Stage 1.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

The crash on a short video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pibKcq_RJs

Jesus, even in slow motion that looks awful.

 

[Pentacycle]

Yes, I wonder how many GC riders will fall victim to Stage 1.

That's why I'm not planning to watch the horror that is the Tour's first week.

 

[search]

so Kroupis is the 8th best sprinter on Orica?

how did he manage to lose ~4 spots despite winning today?

I seriously doubt guys like Impey, Bling and Albi are quicker than him

 

[Dazed and Confused]

how did he manage to lose ~4 spots despite winning today?

I seriously doubt guys like Impey, Bling and Albi are quicker than him

it was an arbitrary number.....not to be taking too seriously.

 

[Gloin22]

Renshaw hospitalized.

 

[classicomano]

Crash was apparently caused by a flat from Renshaw.

 

[jyhjyh]

Renshaw hospitalized.

Edit:
Latest tweet from Jose Been:
Concussion and broken tooth for Renshaw.

Colar bone fracture still unconfirmed by medical staff.

 

[RHRH19861986]

Something I wanted to ask, sorry that it´s a little off topic, but today´s crash reminded me of it, and so you may forgive me asking it here:

Why, actually, was Bos suspended only for six months (if I´m correct) after he pulled down Impey in 2009´s Tour of Turkey? If they ban him, they are convinced of his guilt, but then they´d have had to ban him for much longer... Anyone still knows the reasons for this decision? I watched the incident on Youtube a while ago, and for me, there are only two possibilities:
Either it was an accident, then Bos isn´t guilty at all, or he did it on purpose, then he should be out of competitive cycling for life.

Don´t want to start a discussion, just glad if someone would give me a short summary of the trial after this incident. Thanks

 

[theyoungest]

Something I wanted to ask, sorry that it´s a little off topic, but today´s crash reminded me of it, and so you may forgive me asking it here:

Why, actually, was Bos suspended only for six months (if I´m correct) after he pulled down Impey in 2009´s Tour of Turkey? If they ban him, they are convinced of his guilt, but then they´d have had to ban him for much longer... Anyone still knows the reasons for this decision? I watched the incident on Youtube a while ago, and for me, there are only two possibilities:
Either it was an accident, then Bos isn´t guilty at all, or he did it on purpose, then he should be out of competitive cycling for life.

Don´t want to start a discussion, just glad if someone would give me a short summary of the trial after this incident. Thanks

No real reasoning given for it, just a half a$$ed UCI decision based on no clear footage at all. It was just one month BTW. Although I don't know what the regular penalty for such an offense would be, I've never seen it given (and Cavendish could have had a few).

 

[hidache]

Something I wanted to ask, sorry that it´s a little off topic, but today´s crash reminded me of it, and so you may forgive me asking it here:

Why, actually, was Bos suspended only for six months (if I´m correct) after he pulled down Impey in 2009´s Tour of Turkey? If they ban him, they are convinced of his guilt, but then they´d have had to ban him for much longer... Anyone still knows the reasons for this decision? I watched the incident on Youtube a while ago, and for me, there are only two possibilities:
Either it was an accident, then Bos isn´t guilty at all, or he did it on purpose, then he should be out of competitive cycling for life.

Don´t want to start a discussion, just glad if someone would give me a short summary of the trial after this incident. Thanks

From what I can remember Bos got boxed in and by the movement of the peloton he was forced to drift towards the side of the road. But some riders, including Impey, were riding in that space. He was about to fall when in a reflex he grabbed Impey's jersey to stay upright he said himself. So he said it wasn't his intention to grab him at all but in a reflex to not crash he let Impey crash

 

[theyoungest]

From what I can remember Bos got boxed in and by the movement of the peloton he was forced to drift towards the side of the road. But some riders, including Impey, were riding in that space. He was about to fall when in a reflex he grabbed Impey's jersey to stay upright he said himself. So he said it wasn't his intention to grab him at all but in a reflex to not crash he let Impey crash

I think people attempted to emulate it and found out it's quite hard to purposefully sling someone into the barriers. Not sure how hard they tried, but it remains a strange incident.

 

[RHRH19861986]

No real reasoning given for it, just a half a$$ed UCI decision based on no clear footage at all. It was just one month BTW. Although I don't know what the regular penalty for such an offense would be, I've never seen it given (and Cavendish could have had a few).

OK, thanks a lot

"Half a..ed" is the right word, I think. This whole incident was so strange: normally, Bos doesn´t seem to be such an a..hole at all. Then, Impey and his team seemed surprisingly quiet afterwards, not really angry at Bos, as you would suppose they had reason to be, actually.

To me, it was like a soccer player who takes a 30m run towards the referee just to kick him his foot into the face, almost.

Strange, but OK.

Well, and today a "normal crash", but no less dramatic. Get well soon, Renshaw! Marcel Wüst once lost an eye in such a crash...

 

[RHRH19861986]

From what I can remember Bos got boxed in and by the movement of the peloton he was forced to drift towards the side of the road. But some riders, including Impey, were riding in that space. He was about to fall when in a reflex he grabbed Impey's jersey to stay upright he said himself. So he said it wasn't his intention to grab him at all but in a reflex to not crash he let Impey crash

Much appreciated It seems to me only Bos knows the truth... Maybe better for him

 

[theyoungest]

OK, thanks a lot

"Half a..ed" is the right word, I think. This whole incident was so strange: normally, Bos doesn´t seem to be such an a..hole at all. Then, Impey and his team seemed surprisingly quiet afterwards, not really angry at Bos, as you would suppose they had reason to be, actually.

To me, it was like a soccer player who takes a 30m run towards the referee just to kick him his foot into the face, almost.

Strange, but OK.

Well, and today a "normal crash", but no less dramatic. Get well soon, Renshaw! Marcel Wüst once lost an eye in such a crash...

Impey was definitely angry. He refused to speak to Bos for a while, eventually he did.

 

[hidache]

I think people attempted to emulate it and found out it's quite hard to purposefully sling someone into the barriers. Not sure how hard they tried, but it remains a strange incident.

looking at the crash again I think Bos tried to push Impey away so he wouldn't crash in the barriers, but as a result of that Impey was leaning towards Bos to keep his balance and Bos was forced to go in the barriers. When he fell he was still holding on to Impey causing Impey to crash as well. I think that if Bos didn't crash, Impey wouldn't have crashed as well.