Re: Re:
I missed the stage and normally agree 100% with your statements.
However...this time I don't.
The French journalists, in 1999, knew, they knew in the race tent Lance was doping.
Said nothing.
Look at what a little pressure would have done...they had Lance on the ropes over a saddle cream and a bogus TUE, but nobody pushed back.
What are the French journalists saying?
TonTon, what is your take as a French man?
What are the French saying?
I'd like to hear.
Do I think this is biased? Yes. Sagan is pretty much unbeatable over 21 days.
Heck, he is the reason many of us even watch this bore fest because he tries something to animate this poorly constructed GT (sorry to the French, but it is miles behind the Giro and Vuelta for action and viewing enjoyment). That is all on the ASO (who are in theory mostly French).
Demare should have been penalized too. Who was it who was relegated his stage win at the Giro for diverting his line at the finish? Same thing here. Bouhani was cut in front of. Granted it was CLEAN...but the application of rules shows no consistency.
Relegate Sagan. Cut his points from stage 3 in half...giive him a thorough warning and let the race continue.
But they went for the over the top idiot reaction. Cav got no punishment for practically destroying Simon Gerrans career at the Tour years back (was it 2015?).
Racing is split second reactions. Oh and elbow!!
Was it Mark Renshaw constant barging and head butting into a Garmin rider? Or Robbie McEwen and Stuart O'Grady head barging because "we dislike each other?"
No. Just a racing reaction. Fine him...warn him thorughly, but don't destroy the viewing for millions world wide...that reeks of bias and someone with power pushing numbers. And I am sorry, but it almost certainly has to come for DDD and having Cookson's son work for the team.
Someone made a phone call. Cookson...time for you Brits to pack up and leave the sport. You guys are as corrupt as the Irish and Dutch rulers in the UCI were before you. Time to leave and actually let a Frenchman have a crack.
Yes I am suggesting something is wrong nationalistically and patriotically with political power, but I don't think it's the French. The French have always been reasonably fair by my observations; the UCI however aren't and go where money is. The French know Sagan adds $$$ to viewing revenue and people going to see him win. It's absolutely not in the ASO's interest or the French for him to go home...so have a think people and consider whose value it is...
Cookson is linked to DDD (Dimension Data).
I thought the Valverde and Movistar incident with BMC earlier this season reeked of political interruptions; this is far worse.
BTW: hope Cav is alright. He does make the sprints good when he behaves himself.
P.S: Bora should demand his reinstatement or leave. Make a statement. Just leave. Go to the Vuelta. Where they'd be very welcome.
GuyIncognito said:Martin said:
For the 427th time, what the ASO wants doesn't matter, the decisions are made by the race jury which is not french and not related to ASO
And that video starts after Sagan swerves into Cavendish
I missed the stage and normally agree 100% with your statements.
However...this time I don't.
The French journalists, in 1999, knew, they knew in the race tent Lance was doping.
Said nothing.
Look at what a little pressure would have done...they had Lance on the ropes over a saddle cream and a bogus TUE, but nobody pushed back.
What are the French journalists saying?
TonTon, what is your take as a French man?
What are the French saying?
I'd like to hear.
Do I think this is biased? Yes. Sagan is pretty much unbeatable over 21 days.
Heck, he is the reason many of us even watch this bore fest because he tries something to animate this poorly constructed GT (sorry to the French, but it is miles behind the Giro and Vuelta for action and viewing enjoyment). That is all on the ASO (who are in theory mostly French).
Demare should have been penalized too. Who was it who was relegated his stage win at the Giro for diverting his line at the finish? Same thing here. Bouhani was cut in front of. Granted it was CLEAN...but the application of rules shows no consistency.
Relegate Sagan. Cut his points from stage 3 in half...giive him a thorough warning and let the race continue.
But they went for the over the top idiot reaction. Cav got no punishment for practically destroying Simon Gerrans career at the Tour years back (was it 2015?).
Racing is split second reactions. Oh and elbow!!
Was it Mark Renshaw constant barging and head butting into a Garmin rider? Or Robbie McEwen and Stuart O'Grady head barging because "we dislike each other?"
No. Just a racing reaction. Fine him...warn him thorughly, but don't destroy the viewing for millions world wide...that reeks of bias and someone with power pushing numbers. And I am sorry, but it almost certainly has to come for DDD and having Cookson's son work for the team.
Someone made a phone call. Cookson...time for you Brits to pack up and leave the sport. You guys are as corrupt as the Irish and Dutch rulers in the UCI were before you. Time to leave and actually let a Frenchman have a crack.
Yes I am suggesting something is wrong nationalistically and patriotically with political power, but I don't think it's the French. The French have always been reasonably fair by my observations; the UCI however aren't and go where money is. The French know Sagan adds $$$ to viewing revenue and people going to see him win. It's absolutely not in the ASO's interest or the French for him to go home...so have a think people and consider whose value it is...
Cookson is linked to DDD (Dimension Data).
I thought the Valverde and Movistar incident with BMC earlier this season reeked of political interruptions; this is far worse.
BTW: hope Cav is alright. He does make the sprints good when he behaves himself.
P.S: Bora should demand his reinstatement or leave. Make a statement. Just leave. Go to the Vuelta. Where they'd be very welcome.