Just horrible, what of a waste of time for me trying to watch this travesty. Do you think San Sebastian should lose its World Tour status because of this? Give it back to much better covered races, such as Paris-Tours!
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TommyGun said:Just horrible, what of a waste of time for me trying to watch this travesty. Do you think San Sebastian should lose its World Tour status because of this? Give it back to much better covered races, such as Paris-Tours!
fowlyetti said:
roundabout said:Jagartrott said:'Most probably'? GVA had 13 seconds advantage, 500 m before the top. The Tour and other races proved he can go into the red very very long. And f*** off with your patronising smiley.
More like 5 meters than 13 seconds
http://www.eitb.eus/es/get/multimedia/embed/id/3392372/tipo/video/
johnymax said:"It was a steep climb and the moto driver was too close to me," Van Avermaet said. "He ran right into the back of my bike. My frame was broken and my back wheel was broken. So the race was over for me. I don't know what the moto driver was thinking. He did not say anything to me. Maybe he just gave it a little too much gas and ran into me."
"The bad thing is that I think I could have won the race," Van Avermaet said. "I had a big gap. Maybe Yates could have come back, but I think I still could have been there in the sprint. It is not every year you can win a classic like San Sebastian. So this is really disappointing.”
The climb is OK, but organicers must adpat to the route.Billie said:They need to drop this climb from the route. There's just not enough place. Already last year motorbikes were hindering the race.
And It's way too long to do the same on it as on the Koppenberg.
What a ****, it would make me laugh if it didn't happen in a crucial moment of the racefowlyetti said:
De Snelle Duif said:Orica and Simon yates being really kind towards BMC... At least admit that Greg not being run over would have changed the race.
Waterloo Sunrise said:De Snelle Duif said:Orica and Simon yates being really kind towards BMC... At least admit that Greg not being run over would have changed the race.
BMC are running around saying they had more or less definitely won when Greg was 2 seconds ahead and about to be caught by someone going much quicker than him up the climb.
Not unreasonable to consider that pretty rude towards the rider that actually won and did not cause BMC's misfortune.
De Snelle Duif said:Waterloo Sunrise said:De Snelle Duif said:Orica and Simon yates being really kind towards BMC... At least admit that Greg not being run over would have changed the race.
BMC are running around saying they had more or less definitely won when Greg was 2 seconds ahead and about to be caught by someone going much quicker than him up the climb.
Not unreasonable to consider that pretty rude towards the rider that actually won and did not cause BMC's misfortune.
Even if he would have been caught, that would have been towards the end of the climb, so we can assume that Greg would have been at least one of the first at the top. Watching the video it certainly looks more than 2 seconds, I'd say 5, and there is no reason to believe Yates is going faster than him. They could have just admitted that the incident changed the race, doesn't mean they have to admit that Greg would have won. What Nygaard said is more rude than what BMC says...
We'll never know. WTF! Even the '80 LBL was covered better than that. We're in Freakin' 2015.Waterloo Sunrise said:De Snelle Duif said:Waterloo Sunrise said:De Snelle Duif said:Orica and Simon yates being really kind towards BMC... At least admit that Greg not being run over would have changed the race.
BMC are running around saying they had more or less definitely won when Greg was 2 seconds ahead and about to be caught by someone going much quicker than him up the climb.
Not unreasonable to consider that pretty rude towards the rider that actually won and did not cause BMC's misfortune.
Even if he would have been caught, that would have been towards the end of the climb, so we can assume that Greg would have been at least one of the first at the top. Watching the video it certainly looks more than 2 seconds, I'd say 5, and there is no reason to believe Yates is going faster than him. They could have just admitted that the incident changed the race, doesn't mean they have to admit that Greg would have won. What Nygaard said is more rude than what BMC says...
You haven't watched the video very carefully then.
It is 7 seconds long, he gets hit after 5 seconds are gone and yates is visible in the video. 2 seconds is arguably generous.
Given the size of gap Yates had at the top (i.e. 3 or 4 seconds) I'd say it's unlikely Greg would have got to the top with a lead on the main chase group.
De Snelle Duif said:Waterloo Sunrise said:De Snelle Duif said:Orica and Simon yates being really kind towards BMC... At least admit that Greg not being run over would have changed the race.
BMC are running around saying they had more or less definitely won when Greg was 2 seconds ahead and about to be caught by someone going much quicker than him up the climb.
Not unreasonable to consider that pretty rude towards the rider that actually won and did not cause BMC's misfortune.
Even if he would have been caught, that would have been towards the end of the climb, so we can assume that Greg would have been at least one of the first at the top. Watching the video it certainly looks more than 2 seconds, I'd say 5, and there is no reason to believe Yates is going faster than him. They could have just admitted that the incident changed the race, doesn't mean they have to admit that Greg would have won. What Nygaard said is more rude than what BMC says...
JRanton said:De Snelle Duif said:Waterloo Sunrise said:Of course there is reason to assume that! The reason the motorbikes were trying to get past GVA was because Adam Yates was closing the gap on him very quickly!De Snelle Duif said:Orica and Simon yates being really kind towards BMC... At least admit that Greg not being run over would have changed the race.
JRanton said:The reason that the motorbike was trying to pass GVA in the first place is because Adam Yates was coming up from behind very quickly. You can see in the video that Yates is at most a couple of seconds behind GVA at the time of the crash. Logically you don't make an attack on a climb like that, that is strong enough to drop the likes of Valverde and Purito, without catching and dropping an inferior rider (GVA) before the top of the climb.
In any case, the idea that BMC and GVA were denied a certain victory is complete BS.
Waterloo Sunrise said:De Snelle Duif said:Orica and Simon yates being really kind towards BMC... At least admit that Greg not being run over would have changed the race.
BMC are running around saying they had more or less definitely won when Greg was 2 seconds ahead and about to be caught by someone going much quicker than him up the climb.
Not unreasonable to consider that pretty rude towards the rider that actually won and did not cause BMC's misfortune.