Tour de France Stage 2 Brussels - Spa, 192 km Monday, July 5 2010

[oncearunner]

It was a weird finish for sure. I understand why Cancellara wanted to slow things up until his team leader(s) got back on. Why the seeming protest at the end?

I don't get it. Crashes happen.

 

[Rob_Roy]

It was a weird finish for sure. I understand why Cancellara wanted to slow things up until his team leader(s) got back on. Why the seeming protest at the end?

I don't get it. Crashes happen.

Agree to 100%.
It was true sportmanship to wait for Team Schlecks,no sarcasm here,I like them , but then the road went dry,the oil/fule just a bad memory.
There was no need to perform that stupid protest at the final sprint,the Green Jersey must be worth a bit more than that...

 

[bobs nob]

I agree with you, I think all of them are walking pharmacies, but spilling oil on a wet and narrow descent as an effort to eradicate dopers seems a little extreme to me

OK. Fair enough. But once everyone who had crashed on the oil slick had gotten back on their bikes and was underway and the gc guys had rejoined the peloton, then why not start racing from that point forward? If for no other reason then to allow the sprinters and their leadouts to head up the road and shoot it out?

It seemed like a well intentioned effort at sportsmanship run amok.

 

[tgsgirl]

Unless you've seen Armstrong's injuries,then I don't know how you say this. Armstrong was already bandaged on his right arm and said he road rash on his right hip in his video. Not sure how you could say one is worse than the other if you can only see one person's actual injuries.

http://nos.nl/artikel/169851-armstrong-er-lagen-overal-renners.html

There's a picture with this article, you can click to enlarge. Doesn't really do much for comparison.

 

[Publicus]

http://nos.nl/artikel/169851-armstrong-er-lagen-overal-renners.html

There's a picture with this article, you can click to enlarge. Doesn't really do much for comparison.

Looks about the same to me.

 

[scribe]

It was a weird finish for sure. I understand why Cancellara wanted to slow things up until his team leader(s) got back on. Why the seeming protest at the end?

I don't get it. Crashes happen.

I think it was to totality of the crashes on the stage that was becoming a grotesque selection that lead to the neutralization. Not just one or two here and there, but a ridiculous amount of guys on the asphalt.

 

[Scirea]

Unless you've seen Armstrong's injuries,then I don't know how you say this. Armstrong was already bandaged on his right arm and said he road rash on his right hip in his video. Not sure how you could say one is worse than the other if you can only see one person's actual injuries.

 

[hrotha]

So Contador and Armstrong can't even crash without someone comparing them. Nice.

Not sure who wins though. The one who's hurt the most, or the other way around?

 

[Wattie]

This forum is a disgrace: get the F***ing software sorted. I logged in, spent ten minutes carefully composing a post for this thread and then tried to preview it only to be told I was not logged in. Total f***ing disgrace.

 

[scribe]

Dear fellow posters,

Please stop comparing Armstrong's and Contador's injuries..... No one cares about fantasy cycling in the stage thread.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

I think Bob said it aptly, a case of sportsmanship run amok.

Having now seen it, and read Chris Horner's comments, I have to now wonder what the riders are going to do if it's wet on Stage 9 and it's descent off the Madeleine to the finish and someone crashes on an oil spot?

 

[Mellow Velo]

Oil? Must have been the Danilo Di Luca fan club protesting.

 

[indurain666]

Oil? Must have been the Danilo Di Luca fan club protesting.

+ Valverde and Ricco

 

[Wattie]

To suggest, as some have, that it is the same descent used in Liege Bastogne Liege does slightly miss the point. In LBL by this stage in the race you have already had a sizeable selection in the bunch, so you would not likely get such a large peloton descending the Stockeu as you did today. Stage races and one day races are different and what works on a 260km attritional classic like LBL (or Paris Roubaix, thinking of tomorrow's stage) is perhaps not appropriate as part of a stage race. Tomorrow is likely to be carnage as lots of riders who would simply quit in Paris Roubaix once the major cobbles arrive - the selection having been made , their domestique duties done - are going to have to race hard. I suspect this could result in all manner of crashes and misfortunes that I don't think are appropriate risks for a stage race.

 

[Barrus]

I think Bob said it aptly, a case of sportsmanship run amok.

Having now seen it, and read Chris Horner's comments, I have to now wonder what the riders are going to do if it's wet on Stage 9 and it's descent off the Madeleine to the finish and someone crashes on an oil spot?

I wonder how this peloton would react to the giro? I think half of the stages would have been neutralized by the riders

@ Wattie, they know the stages and they now what is dangerous, as was the case with the giro, it's a problem of the riders themselves, they should have made the selection so that such a thing could not happen. That they did not ride in a manner which would ensure such a selection is completely the fault of the riders and therefore they themselves are responsible

 

[oronet commander]

Does Contador mean Accountant in Spanish? Maybe he can change the pistolshot to a guy using an adding machine.

Not exactly: "accountant" would be "contable", and the precise meaning of Contador is "the one who counts".

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

This forum is a disgrace: get the F***ing software sorted. I logged in, spent ten minutes carefully composing a post for this thread and then tried to preview it only to be told I was not logged in. Total f***ing disgrace.

I can't believe the horrendous software robbed us of your wit.

 

[indurain666]

I am wondering if they would have protested if they would have been sprinting for the stage win...don't think so. I still don't see the big deal about these guys protesting by not sprinting for second place after slipping on oil.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

+ Valverde and Ricco

I think Mello was making a reference to a specific case (Oil for Drugs).

 

[khardung la]

Google translate always changes Contador into Accountant. Vicioso is vicious person, Moreno is coloured person, the intermediary sprint is the classificiation of the projecting goals and, my personal favourite, the LA - Rota dos Moveis team is Team There Route Wall of Furniture.

Yes, a contador is a person who counts things or who tells things (such as stories)

 

[indurain666]

This forum is a disgrace: get the F***ing software sorted. I logged in, spent ten minutes carefully composing a post for this thread and then tried to preview it only to be told I was not logged in. Total f***ing disgrace.

Ten minutes?? what generation are you?? certainly not Y I guess..j/k .

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

I am wondering if they would have protested if they would have been sprinting for the stage win...don't think so. I still don't see the big deal about these guys protesting by not sprinting for second place after slipping on oil.

What a bunch of wimps. I've slipped on everything from toys, dogs, drinks. Did that stop me from making a beer run to the fridge during the commercial break? No, sir.

 

[Publicus]

I think Bob said it aptly, a case of sportsmanship run amok.

Having now seen it, and read Chris Horner's comments, I have to now wonder what the riders are going to do if it's wet on Stage 9 and it's descent off the Madeleine to the finish and someone crashes on an oil spot?

I think the point was the peloton was largely intact on the descent. On the Madeleine, I think a selection will have definitely been made, so if one rider crashes on the descent, there won't be a wholesale stoppage of racing.

 

[Mellow Velo]

I think Mello was making a reference to a specific case (Oil for Drugs).

You are correct, sir.

 

[theyoungest]

Gesink is in the hospital, for a scan of his elbow. Wouldn't it be amazing, twice done the Tour, twice crashed out in the first week.