2016, 70th Tour de Romandie, April 26th - May 1st, WT

[Arredondo]

Zaka DSQ

 

[laurensde+]

What a joke.

 

[Forever The Best]

FFS

 

[blackmamba]

I agree with this was not fair, Zakarin didnt do anything which prevented Quintana to be able to win this stage!

 

[Arredondo]

That Colombian dude gets rewarded for being a *** sprinter!

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Unbelievable really. The sprint was already won

 

[Alexandre B.]

Nice.

 

[DBotero]

Ridiculous decision

 

[johnymax]

Zaka loses the win and 8s to Quintana this way. It makes for a big difference now.

 

[Krokro]

Re:

So with Ion being eventually strong enough to remain in the favorite group, what was Movistar on about today? Going for GC 1-2?

I'd say they wanted to place Quintana as far from his rivals and bet for him in the overall GC, I mean it seems logic to me, he's their leader here. At the end of the day, they have still Izaguirre well places before the ITT where he can do well.

If these were two sprinters instead of two GC riders, everyone would be rightly calling for Zaka's relegation. No reason why we should have a different standard for GC riders.

It's really case specific, on this one I am just saying that I would not as the sprint was already over.

EDIT : Never mind I have just seen the DSQ-1 decision. Stupid to me but word !

 

[laurensde+]

Froomey 17 minutes down

 

[TomekA]

So Zakarin is now 18 seconds down instead of 10 in the GC.

 

[JRanton]

ASO's favourite gets another gift.

 

[Bushman]

I think it's a silly decision too, but why would you blame Quintana? Of course he is gonna make a gesture, every rider in the peloton would do that if they were forced to swerve to the side and brake to avoid crashing even if the sprint was lost already

 

[burning]

Lol, this is absolutely ridiculous, he won because he whined

 

[Isaak-Gabriel]

ASO's favourite gets another gift.

ASO ?

 

[AlexNYC]

Re:

Zaka relegated to 2nd place. I agree that he needs to learn to ride a bike, but Quintana being a *** here

This is a rather ironic comment.

 

[Tonton]

BTW, where did you see that news?

Way too harsh IMO.

Edit: I read DQed. Relegated? Still a bit harsh...but a close call...

 

[aarononymous]

but if he knew that he won the sprint already why drift over?

 

[PremierAndrew]

Just saw the sprint now - they actually relegated him?

 

[HelloDolly]

Poor decision there ...Zakarin did not impede Quintana imo

 

[Alexandre B.]

ASO's favourite gets another gift.

Is this a stupid comment? Yes it is.

 

[Jagartrott]

Very harsh decision, but also quite stupid by Zakarin. He would have won regardless, so why do that?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

New gc

1 QUINTANA Nairo Alexander 51 MOV 07:02:05
2 ZAKARIN Ilnur 8 KAT 18
3 IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI Ion 56 MOV 20
4 PINOT Thibaut 71 FDJ 32
5 FARIA DA COSTA Rui 111 LAM 36
6 FRANK Mathias 131 IAM 37
7 SPILAK Simon 1 KAT 42
8 ROLLAND Pierre 127 CPT 43
9 MOLLEMA Bauke 81 TFS 44
10 URAN Rigoberto 121 CPT 46
11 *FORMOLO Davide 124 CPT 47
12 MAJKA Rafal 11 TNK MT
13 DUMOULIN Tom 171 TGA 57
14 THOMAS Geraint 28 SKY 58
15 REICHENBACH Sébastien 76 FDJ 01:01
16 VAN GARDEREN Tejay 36 BMC 01:06
17 VALLS Rafael 106 LTS 01:07
18 *MEINTJES Louis 116 LAM 01:19
19 *LATOUR Pierre-Roger 147 ALM 01:24
20 KELDERMAN Wilco 91 TLJ MT

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Wow, what a horrible decision. Yes, he moved a little to the right but there was plenty of space for Quintana anyway. If Quintana hadn't whined in the sprint, I wouldn't have noticed anything at all.