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Son of Amsterhammer said:Why is it even a rule?
veji11 said:Son of Amsterhammer said:Why is it even a rule?
I supposed the idea is to avoid cars helping riders out in the last climb with a sticky bottle, or having falls and accidents in a crowded last climb with team helpers handing bottles ?
Of course the French guy doesn't get a penalty. That "jury" is a joke.PremierAndrew said:https://twitter.com/CyclingHubTV/status/885532420908474368
Bardet's bottle in the same clip as Bennett's
No_Balls said:RattaKuningas said:Maybe it is like 2012. Landa might be stronger atm.
He is defo stronger and he didnt care to hide it. Then he passed his captain without looking, Landa-style.
This might open up the whole race and we have a Real one in our hands
The four minute highlights were amazing. Bardet wins, Aru takes yellow. Strictly, though, I like stages with big time differences , and dirty tricks (aru attacking yellow during a mechanical) that don't involve water bottles.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.
Poursuivant said: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?
He did not inhale.
More likely Valverde would've dropped on the Bales already in inexplicable fashion, as he usually does in the Tour.Valv.Piti said:Just caught the last 7,5 km of Balés and instantly saw Fuglsang struggling. Too bad, this really smells like 2014 all over again for him.
Then I saw Kwiatkowski, the best rider in the race, doing something I never woulda imagined him doing. What a rider, but what a sad spectacle. Me and my brother were speechless when the first crossed Peyresourde, but then all proceeded to wait for the sprint! How dare they. Don Alejandro had smoked all these cojones and panache-less bastards. Smoked em!
When has he done that lately? Yes, pre-ban, thats right.Dekker_Tifosi said:More likely Valverde would've dropped on the Bales already in inexplicable fashion, as he usually does in the Tour.Valv.Piti said:Just caught the last 7,5 km of Balés and instantly saw Fuglsang struggling. Too bad, this really smells like 2014 all over again for him.
Then I saw Kwiatkowski, the best rider in the race, doing something I never woulda imagined him doing. What a rider, but what a sad spectacle. Me and my brother were speechless when the first crossed Peyresourde, but then all proceeded to wait for the sprint! How dare they. Don Alejandro had smoked all these cojones and panache-less bastards. Smoked em!
When did he looked attackable on stage 9. His own attack dropped everyone but Urán and Richie? In fact I think he looked like the strongest on stage 9.broken chain said:Thought Froome looked attackable on stage 9.This stage proved it. He doesn't seem to have that extra power this tour.Complacent training maybe??
Highlander said:If Froome crashed and needed medical attention, I fully expect the GC riders to stop near him and wait until he can continue again before resuming the race. We need Nibali who waits for no one.
Wow calm down, he had a bad 300m meters of a mountain stage today, for you to say he looked attackable a few days ago is bending he truth slightly, his wobble today has got some excited it seemsbroken chain said:Thought Froome looked attackable on stage 9.This stage proved it. He doesn't seem to have that extra power this tour.Complacent training maybe??
Eagle said:ITV just showed a video of Bardet clearly drinking from the bottle he got
Yeah, ridiculously stupidhrotha said:What the hell were all of them thinking, though? It's not like it's a new rule or anything.
That when a lot of people do it the jury usually just pretends not to have seen it so why not chance it.Eagle said:Yeah, ridiculously stupidhrotha said:What the hell were all of them thinking, though? It's not like it's a new rule or anything.