2016 Paris - Nice, March 6th - 13th, WT

[May0maniac]

Matthews will need his 2010 climbing legs
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=108420
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=108448

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re: Re:

That typical North-African spirit that we all came to know and love.

Please just ban him from the sport before people start dying.

WTF, this post doesn't smell good, at all

Wow, indeed

 

[jaylew]

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That typical North-African spirit that we all came to know and love.

Please just ban him from the sport before people start dying.

Nominee for worst post of the year

 

[del1962]

I like Bouhanni and his feisty attitude, but the relegation was the right decision

He needs to learn that you can't cut someone up like that

 

[WildspokeJoe]

Officials made the right call. Nacer drifted way wide. Mathews was trying to make the pass.

 

[del1962]

Any news on Perichon and the spectator, hope both are ok

 

[classicomano]

Re: Re:

That typical North-African spirit that we all came to know and love.

Please just ban him from the sport before people start dying.

Nominee for worst post of the year

In return ill take the opportunity to nominate Bouhanni for most moronic cyclist in the history of the sport. Id rather see Gerrans win 10 more monuments then to see him mong up another sprint.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Tomorrow's stage is perfect for contador!! He will put a minute in matthews very easy, thomas is a diesel rider and the only threat is porte, dumoulin lost more than 20 seconds in fleche wallonne and mont brouilly is way more difficult. How can flo say that mont brouilly is perfect for matthews? Is just insane

i would not compare FW Dumoulin to Dumoulin now.

Look at how Dumoulin did on the steep hills in the Vuelta, or more recently on Green Mountain in Tour of Oman. I think he'll lose far less than 20 seconds, unless he has a mediocre day

 

[Red Rick]

Tomorrow's climb is massively overrated. Watched it from 2 years ago, doesn't seem to be anything in it over 15% or anything.

 

[Taxus4a]

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Matthews will need his 2010 climbing legs
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=108420
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=108448

It is not a good reference.

 

[May0maniac]

Re: Re:

Matthews will need his 2010 climbing legs
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=108420
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=108448

It is not a good reference.

Yeah, I know.
I just find it interesting that he used to be a decent climber before turning pro.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

A dramatic sprint. A little too hard on Bouhanni with the relegation, but hopefully he can come back and win a stage.

 

[jens_attacks]

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Tomorrow's climb is massively overrated. Watched it from 2 years ago, doesn't seem to be anything in it over 15% or anything.

Was this raced in 2014? Don't remember anything..

 

[SafeBet]

Bonifazio is so clumsy while sprinting. It's almost unbelievable he can get good results that way.

 

[jens_attacks]

The sprint was dramatic but nacer got too much hate imo. He did moves way more dangerous than this
Bli'm glad that nobody was injured

 

[42x16ss]

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Matthews will need his 2010 climbing legs
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=108420
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=108448

It is not a good reference.

Yeah, I know.
I just find it interesting that he used to be a decent climber before turning pro.

Matthews was 19 then. He's filled out across the shoulders since.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Nacer is not happy.
http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/Nacer-bouhanni-apres-son-declassement-c-est-n-importe-quoi/641423
"This is nonsense!"
"It was he (Matthews) who first comes in contact."

 

[del1962]

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Nacer is not happy.
http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/Nacer-bouhanni-apres-son-declassement-c-est-n-importe-quoi/641423
"This is nonsense!"
"It was he (Matthews) who first comes in contact."

I like Nacer, but he should just man up on this, it was his fault.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Nacer is not happy.
http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/Nacer-bouhanni-apres-son-declassement-c-est-n-importe-quoi/641423
"This is nonsense!"
"It was he (Matthews) who first comes in contact."

Oh Nacer, contact is never 1-sided

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Tomorrow's climb is massively overrated. Watched it from 2 years ago, doesn't seem to be anything in it over 15% or anything.

Was this raced in 2014? Don't remember anything..

Yeah about 15km out, it wasn't the finish. Someone on twitter noted it was Matthews who reacted to Bananito's mythical attack

 

[pastronef]

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Tomorrow's climb is massively overrated. Watched it from 2 years ago, doesn't seem to be anything in it over 15% or anything.

Was this raced in 2014? Don't remember anything..

yep, perfect stage for me JV´s boy Slagter won the stage and G.Thomas got yellow jersey

 

[Teddy Boom]

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Nacer is not happy.
http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/Nacer-bouhanni-apres-son-declassement-c-est-n-importe-quoi/641423
"This is nonsense!"
"It was he (Matthews) who first comes in contact."

I like Nacer, but he should just man up on this, it was his fault.

It is much less egregious in the video than I expected from the picture and comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dyxL1Zvdh4

Anyway, I'm confused about relegation to third. I thought it was last place or no change, nothing in between.

 

[Brullnux]

It's last in the group the sprint was contested in. As there was a time split between Bonifazio and Kristoff, the group contesting the sprint is adjudged to be that of Bonifazio, Matthews and Bouhanni. Therefore, he was demoted to last in that group - 3rd.

 

[carolina]

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Nacer is not happy.
http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/Nacer-bouhanni-apres-son-declassement-c-est-n-importe-quoi/641423
"This is nonsense!"
"It was he (Matthews) who first comes in contact."

this would be so much fun if it was cavendish instead of matthews.

 

[Kwibus]

The discussion is pretty much done, but I don't understand why people defend Bouhanni.

When they come out of the final corner Matthews leaves Bouhannis wheel to pass him on the left. The moment he does that Bouhanni moves to the side of the road. Obviously aware that Matthews is about to pass him there. At first he leaves atleast a little bit of space for Matthews who isn't intimidated by Bouhanni's first move and keeps on moving up on the left. Then Bouhanni decided to close the gap completely.

It's so obvious. The first extreme line deviation is allready pretty bad, but that happens in a sprint, but the final closing the gap while Matthews is allready next to him is ridiculous.

I don't see any blame on Matthews for this who was allready with his front wheel next to Bouhannis rear wheel when Bouhanni moved to the side of the road.