TdF Abandons

[Susan Westemeyer]

Stay on topic of abandons here, please, and take the race discussion elsewhere.

Thank you.

 

[Andy262]

Anyone know what was wrong with Impey? As he finished. Matthews looked concussed during that mechanics film. Dude, where's my bike?

 

[Pricey_sky]

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Anyone know what was wrong with Impey? As he finished. Matthews looked concussed during that mechanics film. Dude, where's my bike?

Looked like collarbone judging by the backstage pass footage.

 

[Billie]

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Anyone know what was wrong with Impey? As he finished. Matthews looked concussed during that mechanics film. Dude, where's my bike?

Cancellara was clearly concussed aswell. Not healthy to jump on your bike again immediately.

 

[Gigs_98]

And thats why a TTT on stage nine is ***. I mean, TTT´s are nonsense anyways but on stage 9?

 

[ILovecycling]

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The crash aftermath from the perspective of an Orica mechanic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7raIxrzodt4

Watch it.

OMG I've never seen such a 'great' video, those crashes are really terrible

 

[Eagle]

Schillinger was a DNS today

 

[Electress]

Did anyone of the 'riding injured' not make it through today? Kudos to those who did. I didn't watch but I read someone with a wrist injury was riding with only one hand on the handlebars!!!

 

[AlexNYC]

Dowsett arrived injured today. Hopefully it's not bad enough to cause him to exit the Tour as Movistar need him for the TTT.

 

[Gigs_98]

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Dowsett arrived injured today. Hopefully it's not bad enough to cause him to exit the Tour as Movistar need him for the TTT.

If he abandons that would be a disaster for quintana

 

[Eagle]

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Dowsett arrived injured today. Hopefully it's not bad enough to cause him to exit the Tour as Movistar need him for the TTT.

If he abandons that would be a disaster for quintana

https://twitter.com/alexdowsett/status/618468760924618752

Thanks for the concern, I'm all ok now, 6 stitches in my arm and it's as good as new, I won't post a photo, it's not for the faint hearted!

 

[ILovecycling]

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Dowsett arrived injured today. Hopefully it's not bad enough to cause him to exit the Tour as Movistar need him for the TTT.

If he abandons that would be a disaster for quintana

he won't but he will be 5% at that ttt

 

[Escarabajo]

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Dowsett arrived injured today. Hopefully it's not bad enough to cause him to exit the Tour as Movistar need him for the TTT.

If he abandons that would be a disaster for quintana

I won't matter if he is really hurt anyway!

 

[TMP402]

Amazing no-one abandoned today. Absolutely amazing. Oddly enough by this point we'd also had seven abandons in the Giro.

 

[Gigs_98]

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Dowsett arrived injured today. Hopefully it's not bad enough to cause him to exit the Tour as Movistar need him for the TTT.

If he abandons that would be a disaster for quintana

I won't matter if he is really hurt anyway!

he has some time to recover so if it isn't bad enough to abandon he will probably be very helpful in the TTT

 

[del1962]

Always worried to here that Dowsett is bleeding with his condition, hope he is strong for TTT

 

[TMP402]

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Always worried to here that Dowsett is bleeding with his condition, hope he is strong for TTT

Oh wow yeah of course.

 

[Eagle]

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Always worried to here that Dowsett is bleeding with his condition, hope he is strong for TTT

Some pictures of his cut before and after getting it stitched up, it looks horrible. Hope he is OK now that it is stitched up
https://twitter.com/CyclismCycling

 

[Vasilis]

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Really a big blunder to have the TTT after such hectic stages. Tomorrow will be another battlefield with crashes. Orica already has 6 riders left, so it means they could only lose one rider in the difficult TTT, impossible!

I have wondered before and again now: what if a team doesn't have enough riders to qualify in the TTT? Do they just need everyone, whether that's five or four or even less?

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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Really a big blunder to have the TTT after such hectic stages. Tomorrow will be another battlefield with crashes. Orica already has 6 riders left, so it means they could only lose one rider in the difficult TTT, impossible!

I have wondered before and again now: what if a team doesn't have enough riders to qualify in the TTT? Do they just need everyone, whether that's five or four or even less?

As I understand it, if the team has less than five members left, the last rider home counts for the time.

 

[TMP402]

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Really a big blunder to have the TTT after such hectic stages. Tomorrow will be another battlefield with crashes. Orica already has 6 riders left, so it means they could only lose one rider in the difficult TTT, impossible!

I have wondered before and again now: what if a team doesn't have enough riders to qualify in the TTT? Do they just need everyone, whether that's five or four or even less?

As I understand it, if the team has less than five members left, the last rider home counts for the time.

The TDF rulebook says:

For the team classification, the time of the 5th man on each team is recorded 5 times. In the event where a team no longer has at least 5 riders, those remaining in the race are required to complete the course within the permitted finishing time provided for in Article 22 (Coefficient 6).

Article 22 is just the cut-off times for each stage, so basically having fewer than five riders is fine. The UCI say you must have at least 2 riders for a TTT, although amusingly they also say you can have as many as 10 - what race would that be?!

 

[TMP402]

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Always worried to here that Dowsett is bleeding with his condition, hope he is strong for TTT

Some pictures of his cut before and after getting it stitched up, it looks horrible. Hope he is OK now that it is stitched up
https://twitter.com/CyclismCycling

It also kind of looks like he took some damage to his right foot here

 

[RedheadDane]

Quick question:
Could you imagine that there might be riders who'd hang on until the TTT and then afterwards decide whether or not they should stop?

 

[TMP402]

Well Bouhanni's out.

 

[TMP402]

Jack Bauer out.