Cannondale employee vs Team staff?
I'm confused as to what the difference is and more importantly why that difference even matters.
I'm confused as to what the difference is and more importantly why that difference even matters.
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Peyresourde also isn't hard enough for people to commit unless a dowhill finish follows it or there is more than 2km of downhill before the last climb to recover from the effort. Peyragudes is too hard to couple with Peyresourde. An HC climb before it would provoke attacks, but that isn't possibleRed Rick said:This.Brullnux said:14 riders at the top of Bales was good. The fact four were from the same team wasn't. Nothing happening (at all) on the Peyresourde was abysmal. Nothing happening until the final 300-400m of Peyragudes was horrific. There was nothing worth watching in this stage until the last 500m. I feel like I have wasted an hour or two of my life, and that to me shows that this stage was utterly awfulAlexandre B. said:14 riders at the summit of Balès was apparently not good enough for their entertainment.Oude Geuze said:Why was it not a great stage? A war of atrition, psychology, bluffs, attacks, drops, and 4 riders within 1min overall. So many whiny, elitist fans here, only an attack from 50k by 2nd tier niche fan favorite warrants a good stage. Its like a competition on who dislikes races the most, as if that gives you some weird street cred in this forum.
And yeah, why would an arbitrary division of the earth make any differences whatsoever in whos top 10?
And lol at the vitreol directed against Froome, take a step back, get some perspective or scurry off back to the clinic with the rest of the haters.
This is also partially on the route though. The Peyragudes is just a **** climb, and the fact that it's either attack from 8km or in the last 1.5 or so, gives way too big a chance to completely blow. The climb has seen 2 Tour's and 1 Vuelta now, all hard stages, and not one of them was good.
Watch? Or wash his mouth, as Bardet surely did Stickler for the rules, that oneAlexandre B. said:https://twitter.com/Vaughters/status/885530757392936961
Watch your mouth, Jonathan.
Brullnux said:14 riders at the top of Bales was good. The fact four were from the same team wasn't. Nothing happening (at all) on the Peyresourde was abysmal. Nothing happening until the final 300-400m of Peyragudes was horrific. There was nothing worth watching in this stage until the last 500m. I feel like I have wasted an hour or two of my life, and that to me shows that this stage was utterly awfulAlexandre B. said:14 riders at the summit of Balès was apparently not good enough for their entertainment.Oude Geuze said:Why was it not a great stage? A war of atrition, psychology, bluffs, attacks, drops, and 4 riders within 1min overall. So many whiny, elitist fans here, only an attack from 50k by 2nd tier niche fan favorite warrants a good stage. Its like a competition on who dislikes races the most, as if that gives you some weird street cred in this forum.
And yeah, why would an arbitrary division of the earth make any differences whatsoever in whos top 10?
And lol at the vitreol directed against Froome, take a step back, get some perspective or scurry off back to the clinic with the rest of the haters.
I guess it might be Cannondale bike company vs Slipstream organisation.deValtos said:Cannondale employee vs Team staff?
I'm confused as to what the difference is and more importantly why that difference even matters.
hrotha said:What a sad, idiotic and cowardly spectacle. A few people will have a hard time sleeping tonight thinking of what-if scenarios.
Yes, Contador is going to lose a lot of sleep over whether or not he could have been 10th after today's stage with a different tactic.Knutsen said:hrotha said:What a sad, idiotic and cowardly spectacle. A few people will have a hard time sleeping tonight thinking of what-if scenarios.
Absolutly. Like Contador: "What if I had'nt.."
'What if I'd waited'Knutsen said:hrotha said:What a sad, idiotic and cowardly spectacle. A few people will have a hard time sleeping tonight thinking of what-if scenarios.
Absolutly. Like Contador: "What if I had'nt.."
PremierAndrew said:https://twitter.com/CyclingHubTV/status/885532420908474368
Bardet's bottle in the same clip as Bennett's
Is there a rule for how long you can keep a bottle without being penalised?luckyboy said:PremierAndrew said:https://twitter.com/CyclingHubTV/status/885532420908474368
Bardet's bottle in the same clip as Bennett's
That clip conveniently doesn't show him throwing it away almost immediately
luckyboy said:PremierAndrew said:https://twitter.com/CyclingHubTV/status/885532420908474368
Bardet's bottle in the same clip as Bennett's
That clip conveniently doesn't show him throwing it away almost immediately
You cannot take food or drinks from anyone within the final 20km.veji11 said:I just don't understand squat to this bottle rule... what is allowed and what isn't ?
Yeah, in theory both are illegal, in practice what Bardet did is sometimes allowed and what Uran did isn't. But it's rare too see the line marked out so meticulously. Normally they"ll either let it be or they won't.LaFlorecita said:You cannot take food or drinks from anyone within the final 20km.veji11 said:I just don't understand squat to this bottle rule... what is allowed and what isn't ?
Bardet threw the bottle away so I guess he didn't really "take" it.
Bennett clearly drank the content.Dekker_Tifosi said:LottoNL has protested the time penalty, saying that Bennett didn't drink, but took the water to cool his neck, same as Bardet.
Either way, it's all a penalty or nobody a penalty. No double (french) standards
Alexandre B. said:Bennett clearly drank the content.Dekker_Tifosi said:LottoNL has protested the time penalty, saying that Bennett didn't drink, but took the water to cool his neck, same as Bardet.
Either way, it's all a penalty or nobody a penalty. No double (french) standards
Rollthedice said:Alexandre B. said:Bennett clearly drank the content.Dekker_Tifosi said:LottoNL has protested the time penalty, saying that Bennett didn't drink, but took the water to cool his neck, same as Bardet.
Either way, it's all a penalty or nobody a penalty. No double (french) standards
Yes, but did he swallow?
Good to see calls for the discretionary application of common practices over the written code. Particularly when I agree with the principle and the substance.Alexandre B. said:So drinking the content is illegal, taking it for cooling is not.