Htcornerboy

[Spanky]

It seems that Cav's cornerboy behaviour has now spread to Mark Renshaw with him throwing headbutt's in the sprint. What's next - Tony Martin throwing punches? Where were these scumbags dragged up? Is cycling the new soccer?

 

[Zerak-Tul]

Sprinters throwing headbutts, why that's unheard off!

/sarcasm

 

[ExRower]

renshaw's been kicked out of the TDF. Good for him.

 

[flicker]

renshaw's been kicked out of the TDF. Good for him.

really. Head butting and blocking out as Farrar had done to him today I thought was legal and common.

 

[Ryaguas]

Renshaw totally cross the line... he is the best lead - out man but there is a limit! and he crossed BIG TIME that limit today... Head-butting and blocking others sprinters and lead-out men is not acceptable in La Grande Boucle... he is removed from Le Tour and should be banned one or two years from La Grande Boucle...

 

[erader]

it'll be interesting to see how cavendish fares without renshaw. no excuses now for farrar.

erader

 

[Cobblestones]

it'll be interesting to see how cavendish fares without renshaw. no excuses now for farrar.

erader

Oh he'll find some and he'll need them.

 

[WildspokeJoe]

it'll be interesting to see how cavendish fares without renshaw. no excuses now for farrar.

erader

Except that pesky broken hand.

Watching the sprint, I think Renshaw deserved to get DQ'd. He totally impeded Farrar's sprint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saPLJQZhQpk#t=4m15s

 

[Francois the Postman]

Looking at that video (winding it back to 3.40m), interesting to see how Freire is quicker to find Cavendish's wheel after the corner than the (4th) HTC rider next to him, immediately has to assert himself in that position to keep it, then gets the Dean-Farrar tandem next to him, and gets a friendly shove from Farrar that displaces him from the wheel he had.

 

[Thee_chisa]

what's a cornerboy? and this stuff goes on all the time in the tour. what about those guys fighting? they only got fined.

 

[metaCYCLE]

c'mon Thee_chisa... you can't compare the two situations... those two idiots were putting no one in danger, while Renshaw...

 

[danjo007]

tour de rollerball ?

and the 2 guys fighting we not during a 70kph sprint endangering the whole peleton.

 

[Thee_chisa]

i have seen this happen a lot though, i know zabel has done it, mceuan too. i think kelly may have used his head a bit in the past too.

this is sprinting.