It's cycling, what do you expect? It's particularly funny at post tour crits, when they mess up the lap-count, the results, riders being lapped, bunch of *** oafs everywhere you look.Jagartrott said:
MatParker117 said:
deValtos said:LaFlorecita said:This reminds me of something Dan Martin pointed out. 50th on GC earns as many WT points as 3rd on a stage with the new system. Way to promote aggressive racing.
While I don't disagree with the content of what Dan Martin is saying ... the fact that he admits he's only just finding about this now kind of implies he (and other riders) never gave much of a care anyways. You'd have to know about it for it to have an effect on you. :lol:
Perhaps it does affect the DS's decisions though.
Mr.White said:
Valv.Piti said:
LaFlorecita said:He wasn't joking, there was a meeting between the jury and Movistar and BMC, but it seems they maintained the sanction - 3' for Rojas, 2' for Amador and 1' for Oliveira.GraftPunk said:Felice Gimondi said:New Jury meeting
I honestly can't tell if you are joking or not, my caffeine has worn off.
Cycling wonders why it lacks credibility....?HelloDolly said:
Ricco' said:I went to the official website to see the classifications and the jury of this race must be the most incompetent that I have ever seen.
In the team classification, they decided to count 3 times the result of this stage (for team time trials, usually the result of the stage is the result of the team classification). The result? For instance BMC is at 6 seconds of the front when they should be at 2 seconds, Sky is at 2'12'' when they should be at 46'' and so on. Caja Rural is at 13'48'' when no team lost that much time. I remember that yesterday all times except Funvic arrived with the same time.
I don't know what this people is doing, really.
I just checked the regulation of the race and the fault is on the organizers who decided to multiply the result of the stage by 3 for the team classifications. So, in practical terms, for that specific competition, we have 9 stages, 3 of which are TTT.
This organizers deserve to have this race demoted to 2.2 or lower.
Armchair cyclist said:Ricco' said:I went to the official website to see the classifications and the jury of this race must be the most incompetent that I have ever seen.
In the team classification, they decided to count 3 times the result of this stage (for team time trials, usually the result of the stage is the result of the team classification). The result? For instance BMC is at 6 seconds of the front when they should be at 2 seconds, Sky is at 2'12'' when they should be at 46'' and so on. Caja Rural is at 13'48'' when no team lost that much time. I remember that yesterday all times except Funvic arrived with the same time.
I don't know what this people is doing, really.
I just checked the regulation of the race and the fault is on the organizers who decided to multiply the result of the stage by 3 for the team classifications. So, in practical terms, for that specific competition, we have 9 stages, 3 of which are TTT.
This organizers deserve to have this race demoted to 2.2 or lower.
They have indeed used a multiple of three on the gap between teams, but your analysis is quite wrong. In doing this they are simply being consistent with the near-ubiquitous rule of team classifications: take the time of the first three finishers of the team in each stage.
Most races only take the team time (once) for team time trials, and very rarely specify in the race regulations that this is what they will do: the organisers of this race are simply unusual in applying the principles of the teams category to every stage. If any team really considered the team classification in this event a major objective it might be an issue, but I very much doubt that BMC will lodge any objection if they lose that category by 3 seconds.
! UCI fail
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