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Perhaps it's not that he wasn't a team player? Maybe his DS's at Caisse explicitly asked him to not get in the way trying to "help"? I mean, he boxed Freire in and then got him DQ'ed with an absolutely stupid move. If I had a say at Rabo, I'd tell Lulu, pretty please don't help us anymore. Just- just mind your own business, k?Havetts said:Well, this is a shame. Oh well, atleast proves LLS got some teamspirit first by working yesterday on the climb and now leading out.
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theyoungest said:He's won mine this week. I'm not a big fan, but he's been very useful.
edit: see? And Havetts' as well
Feel mostly sorry for him, causing your team-mate a DSQ like that must suck.
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boomcie said:
you must have missed the world championships coverage on the bbc, when the commentator suddenly detected close to the finish that there were "two martins" in the german team. "Paul Martin, and Tony Martin, the sprinter"
made my day
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jens_attacks said:
lol at least i was right with the first part.
sorry for oscarito but he should know these things better.
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"But instead of turning back the decision to disqualify, the jury added the manouevre of Oscar who made room with his. You should keep both hands on the steer of the bike during the sprint. But if you disqualify someone for that, then Robert Gesink could even win a mass sprint for us."
- Adrie van Houwelingen, DS
.Havetts said:"But instead of turning back the decision to disqualify, the jury added the manouevre of Oscar who made room with his. You should keep both hands on the steer of the bike during the sprint. But if you disqualify someone for that, then Robert Gesink could even win a mass sprint for us."
- Adrie van Houwelingen, DS
No sh*t! The seat sling is hard to ignore, even if it didn't seem to net the win. Bummer for Oscar who had to ride a bajillion hills to get to that finish.
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i don't think it was just the lulu push of freire that got them DQ'ed.
in the video, at about the 30 second mark, both lulu and freire put their hand out and give a slight push to riders next to them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQuZTrJCJI
still feel bad for freire, he was clearly the fastest one in the sprint, push or no push
in the video, at about the 30 second mark, both lulu and freire put their hand out and give a slight push to riders next to them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQuZTrJCJI
still feel bad for freire, he was clearly the fastest one in the sprint, push or no push
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Good ol' Óscarcito. Always good for a contentious sprint at País Vasco. There were two of them last year.
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hfer07 said:what an enormous load of SH!T
Not so unfair. The push can be considered an inelastic collision, so the speed gained by it isn't negligible. Before physics experts kill me, ok, ok, I know it isn't exactly an inelastic collision, but the dynamic friction in a bike is small, so the energy lost by that isn't high. This means something as small as a couple of km/h gained by the push, mantained by a very brief duration of 2-3 seconds is enough to give you quite an advantage (and those are both highly conservative numbers).
I wanted Freire to win. Rabobank did their job until the end. Hadn't Sánchez blocked Freire, he would have won by himself easily. Perhaps even without the push. But it isn't possible to say the push didn't help Freire, because it does help and not slightly in a contested sprint. And, again, even if one assume the push is useless; it is forbidden. Rules are rules.
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theyoungest said:Rabo have got themselves a second Graeme Brown
Don't forget theo bos and robert gesink!
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