thehog said:
I think the issue here is more about Cavindish’s the man himself. If the same events occurred with any other rider there wouldn’t have been a protest. Hunt and co. are sticking up for their man. Bravo to that. Cav’s problem when he was winning every race he entered he did it without humility. Now he’s not winning so much and making mistakes he’s finding he has no friends. Its going to be a long time to he can earn back the respect of the peloton. It will go against him the Tour. He’s becoming a liability of Columbia – they don’t seem to be able to manage him. I think well done to the protest. Cervelo stuck up for their man who was fowled. If the roles were reversed what do you think Cav would have done? He wouldn’t have held a protest the next day on the startline. He would have ran up to the Cervelo team bus, banged on their door, when they didn’t open it he would have smashed one of the windows, jumped in and smashed the place up. He then would have spent the next 6 weeks telling the press what a bunch of sc3m bags the Cervelo team are. Contrast will show what Cervelo did was pride for the team and their man.
+1, and it was AG2R as well as Cervelo, and perhaps others i guess. Indeed as mentioned, the peleton will sort it out, and this protest is a good start.
Mrs John Murphy said:
Nothing is ever Frodo's fault though is it. Whenever anything goes wrong someone else is to blame.
Frodo needs to man up and apologise - his reckless riding has sent one rider to the hospital with a broken hip - and that is entirely the fault of Frodo.
forty four said:
wow i remember that what a morally reprehensible individual. i really would like to see another rider decide to get dq'd and kick the crap out of cav that would be priceless. i find it amazing he did not even offer an apology i watched the video he should have been dq'd.
Indeed, he hardly accepted he fvcked up, and no apology. Incredible.
flicker said:
Sorry, Cav. and Haussler do what sprinters do. Go try some amatuer races that is what sprinters do. That is the game. Check out the latest Velonews.
phlatties said:
agree w/flicker. it's what they do. it's what happens. joining a "protest"? jeezuz. i can't imagine how a peloton would move if you had to call out every thing and everyone that was involved in crash. Cavendish is this, he's that....waaahhhh Shut up and ride.
Sure it's what they do...hopefully whilst holding their line (more or less).
Put it this way, if the Terror from Tashkent was racing today (the way he used to), would you, as a sprinter, stand for that? Face it, you'd be mad to mix it up with him in close quarters, so I think you're going to either need to be very lucky finding a line nowhere near him, or, you just might be lodging some sort of protest. Cav's movement was huge and either vindictive or out of control - that should not be part of sprinting.
In other words, yes sprinting is dangerous and accidents will happen, and no we shouldn't protest every reasonable mistake. But if someone's out of control or acting desperate, that's a different story, and it should be called out. Cav is building a record of dangerous and/or disrespectful incidents, and now riders feel something has to be said before it gets worse. It's their career and livelihood, why should that be jeopardised needlessly, just because the young hobbit is under a lot of pressure to deliver for himself.
For the record, I used to quite like him, at least during most of last year's TdF. I thought he said the right things after winning stages, about support from his team. But his off-course antics and attitude have shown a different side to him eh, and his on-bike record is starting to look pretty dodgy.
it really does not make sense what you just wrote!!
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