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UAE Tour 2025, February 6-9 (women's)

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Kool gets baulked by Balsamo, in theory that should be a yellow card, non ?

The crash was caused by Norsgaard looking behind and Consonni trying to through a gap that wasn't there, which then made Barbieri go down with her. Balsamo and Kool were further behind and on the other side at that point, but I didn't see if anything happened to/between them beforehand.

View: https://x.com/elsterrato/status/1888571498123710818
 
Why a riders wachting backwards 200 metre before the line in the middle of a sprint?

Because she had lost Balsamo, and Norsgaard has been very open about no longer wanting to sprint herself at all. Not that it's in any way a good excuse, but just an explanation. She also continued to swerve afterwards which could have caused another crash. Still even if she had continued her sprint without looking back, there's a chance that Consonni would have ridden into her and/or Franziska Brauße.
 
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The crash was caused by Norsgaard looking behind and Consonni trying to through a gap that wasn't there, which then made Barbieri go down with her. Balsamo and Kool were further behind and on the other side at that point, but I didn't see if anything happened to/between them beforehand.

View: https://x.com/elsterrato/status/1888571498123710818

can just about see it on this view, though it focuses on Wiebes sprint and theyve cut a chunk off the left side of the picture,and its only about the first few seconds.

But Kool is on the left near the barriers, probably a bad spot to choose as she gets boxed in, but she has a gap is coming up alongside Balsamo who then just steers to the left side barrier across where Kool is because Balsamo is trying to get past Schweinberger, which completely wrecks Kools sprint as she had to check up and brake to avoid a crash, Balsamo has a wobble, so maybe they did touch or she hit Schweinberger, they carry on abit and Balsamo almost collects Schweinberger again as the result of other riders avoiding the crash.

and its like, that just looked very sketchy riding there, surely if these yellow card rules are worth the ink theyre printed with, Team picnic (hampers) should have asked the question of the commissaires, just to see what the limits or bounds of this rule is.

now it didnt impact the result of the sprint for sure, but the rule isnt written to take account of the outcome.