Tonton said:There's another way to look at it: Nacer has been treated unfairly. And when he was DQed, where was the outcry? Deafening silence...tobydawq said:Tonton said:Had Nacer hit the ground, Nono would have been sanctioned. No doubt. And that's a big difference between the two. And it used to be that way. as long as no one gets hurt, it's all fine. You play with fire, as long as no one gets hurt, it's OK. It was a game of chicken between Sagan and Cavendish, they both lost. Best rider in the World vs. best TdF sprinter ever, that's a lot of ego...no one was going to give in. That's why the "Demare did something worse" statement is non-sense. No one was hurt.
That logic is really, really flawed. And you know that is not how judgments are made. Bouhanni was declassified twice last year (Paris-Nice and Vattenfall) without anybody being hurt. Judgments really need to be based on an action, not its consequences (and they usually are).
I thought his DQ was excessive at the time.
I generally think most of them are.
The rider I was harshest on...comes from somewhere very close to where I am from.
Mark Renshaw. Absolutely went way too far.
But at the time, he was leading out the entire sprint train with the ENTIRE peloton in tow.
Big contrast with this.
There were 6 of them in the sprint and 3 lead out men just behind...massive difference. Also the reason for the major diversion in racing line here were different.
There still is no reason for 4 of the 6 sprinters to sway towards the far right, 3 of them basically getting on the barrier, when the leadout men pulled off to the right and the sprint headed down the middle of a substantially wide road. The reason? Someone bumbed one rider and started a chain reaction.
Anyway...let's see what happens with Bora.