Libertine Seguros said:
Both of them cut up Ciolek, Cavendish more so. How he's blameless I don't understand, unless you're wearing Union Jack goggles.
Haussler was deviating a bit, Cavendish more so. Both of them were being reckless, Cavendish more so.
Cav is sometimes given a hard time. But blaming Haussler for the accident here because he happens to drop his shoulder a bit at the last second instead of turning off and letting Goldenballs through is a reach. This is about as obvious a bump as Karpets inadvertently knocking Contador over in the Tour.
Cav wasn't doing a Theo Bos, no. I never said he was. The comparison to Bos earlier was taking the "the guy who 90% of people think is to blame isn't to blame and is being picked on" philosophy of those who think Haussler is to blame here and applying it to other cases.
Also, you say that Haussler is the one being unprofessional; I'd argue that consistent refusal to take responsibility for your actions is pretty unprofessional of Cavendish too. Sprinting as wildly as Cavendish did that day may have been OK in the days of Abdoujaparov, but it doesn't fly today. Especially not from a guy who should be - and usually is - above that kind of nonsense.
Unless you think that his victory at Romandie was him trying to signal that it was his second victory of the year, but pulling his bicep partway through, so having to support it with his other arm.
So many of you refuse to see the point despite having it put so clearly in front of you. I do not have Union Jack googles on.
I do not think Cav was blameless and have pointed out that he put his head down which caused him to travel across the road, an 'Abdu' moment agreed (mind you Haussler is not travelling straight down the road and has his head down most of the time).
What you are failing to understand is this; if you look closely enough at all the clips available, you will see that what tips Cav off balance, bringing his front wheel under Haussler's is Haussler's exaggerated barging with his shoulder - there is no doubt whatsoever that without that the carnage that ensued
could have been avoided.
You need to look at 1.27 also in the slow mo (of my original link) and watch it a few times and you will see that just prior to Cav falling his bike was practically upright (Cav just starting a honk to the right) and that the change in balance was sudden and coincides precisely with Haussler's barge. Therefore the end result - the spill - was
unecessary .
I came into this thread because I saw more nonsense about the incident brought up again. As some point out it's a racing incident and should be forgotten (but learnt from). What annoys me is that the blame was lain solely at Cavendish's door and that is absolute claptrap.
I'd like it if you could all see what is plainly before you. I'm not trying to pull the wool over your eyes - I'm trying to pull it from them.
To Angliru; obviously I make a generalisation - I'm sure not all Americans are Tyler Farrar fans. However a rather large percentage of Cav's knockers (his detractors!) seem to be American, that's a fact.