UCI jury again ridicolous

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Gesink and Kruijswijk 20 sec time penalty for drafting

Are you ****ing kidding me? What kind of sad moronic power hungry idiots are these people?

 

[Fetisoff]

No way they were doing it worse than Nibali couple stages ago

 

[maxmartin]

Gesink and Kruijswijk 20 sec time penalty for drafting

Are you ****ing kidding me? What kind of sad moronic power hungry idiots are these people?

is it because of pieter's push?

 

[El Pistolero]

Lol, trolls of CN should take lessons from ASO.

 

[Thibaut Pinot]

WTF? What about Schleck?

 

[LaFleur]

Gesink and Kruijswijk 20 sec time penalty for drafting

Are you ****ing kidding me? What kind of sad moronic power hungry idiots are these people?

Where did you get this from?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

danny nelissen, eurosport commentator

 

[Caruut]

What absolute fools. They're punished enough by the crash, let them take a few liberties. Would like to see if these clowns on the jury would even show up to work after a crash like that, let alone ride on for 25km.

 

[Eshnar]

Gesink and Kruijswijk 20 sec time penalty for drafting

Are you ****ing kidding me? What kind of sad moronic power hungry idiots are these people?

This is some serious trolling by these guys, if it's true (and i hope it isn't, obviously)

 

[theyoungest]

Maybe it would have been worth the 20 sec penalty to just draft them all the way to the front group...

 

[Kwibus]

Rabo better transfer 10000 euros to the UCI and I'm sure that tomorrow the UCI removed the time penalty because of the unfortunate circumstances.

 

[Bala Verde]

haha that's actually really funny.

The UCI making sure the competition remains fair. (or cracking down on cheating in cycling)

Koen de Kort ‏@koendekort
@Laura_Weislo there were commissaires on motorbikes and in cars scouting every group. Whistling when we got within 3m of a car.

Koen de Kort ‏@koendekort
Doesn't matter for me but Gesink comes past with lots of skin off, ripped kit and commissaire with him making sure he doesn't motorpace.Why?

 

[Eyeballs Out]

They went easy on Kruijswijk yesterday when he crashed before the 3 km banner but they gave him same time regardless

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I saw Sagan today behind the car after a mechanical. Clearly in camera view.

If the UCI are so focussed on fair cycling they should penalize him too.
Or what about Cobo and co in the 2nd chase group when they were right behind the cars

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Wait... i assume not just Gesink & Kruijswijck? To be honest, i saw a grupetto drafting and i was expecting something like this (don't know if it was the group with G&K). Also, it seemed like Gesink was struggling to keep the wheel of the rider in front of him?

But the crash itself was seriously depressing, because you want to see those guys defend their chances. Ironically, the guys that are expected to widen the gap in the ITT (Evans, Wiggins, Menchov) didn't suffer any timeloss... I guess Gesink & co must have done some seriously bad **** in a previous lifetime. Well, at least their mission seems clear: ATTACK! Starting tomorrow.

 

[LaFleur]

Wait... i assume not just Gesink & Kruijswijck? To be honest, i saw a grupetto drafting and i was expecting something like this (don't know if it was the group with G&K). Also, it seemed like Gesink was struggling to keep the wheel of the rider in front of him?

But the crash itself was seriously depressing, because you want to see those guys defend their chances. Ironically, the guys that are expected to widen the gap in the ITT (Evans, Wiggins, Menchov) didn't suffer any timeloss... I guess Gesink & co must have done some seriously bad **** in a previous lifetime. Well, at least their mission seems clear: ATTACK! Starting tomorrow.

I don't think that there are many who are really able to attack tomorrow tbf, especially Gesink looked really battered today.

 

[thehog]

I'm glad the UCI are cracking down on drafting. Today was no excuse to ride behind a team car.

 

[Red Rick]

Gesink and Kruijswijk 20 sec time penalty for drafting

Are you ****ing kidding me? What kind of sad moronic power hungry idiots are these people?

I sincerely don't give a **** about which disease McQuaid gets, as long as he dies from it soon.

 

[Bala Verde]

What about the group schleck/mollema? Did they not get penalized? I saw them on TV drafting a car as well.

Is there a public list with penalties?

 

[roundabout]

Casar and Kern also got penalized.

 

[CobbleStoner]

I'm glad the UCI are cracking down on drafting. Today was no excuse to ride behind a team car.

WTF!!! if they really don't want crashed/mechanical riders catching any momentary draft behind a vehicle, don't have any vehicles in there, a couple of camera bikes will do the job, way, way too many vehicles in the tour procession (just ask Hoogerland, or Flecha, or BB...), they can not get back to the peloton without drafting, impossible.
please just let them race, stop with all the ridiculousness, seriously hurting cycling with all this BS

 

[Frosty]

WTF!!! if they really don't want crashed/mechanical riders catching any momentary draft behind a vehicle, don't have any vehicles in there, a couple of camera bikes will do the job, way, way too many vehicles in the tour procession (just ask Hoogerland, or Flecha, or BB...), they can not get back to the peloton without drafting, impossible.
please just let them race, stop with all the ridiculousness, seriously hurting cycling with all this BS

He's joking

 

[orangerider]

While we're at it, let's do retroactive drafting penalties as well. Analyze some of those world cycling videos and assess time deductions. I'm sure LA could be the poster child and have a bunch thrown at him. Contador too, as he hasn't been in the news much recently so need some flexing of the muscle to show who's boss.

 

[MonteZoncolan]

WTF!!! if they really don't want crashed/mechanical riders catching any momentary draft behind a vehicle, don't have any vehicles in there, a couple of camera bikes will do the job, way, way too many vehicles in the tour procession (just ask Hoogerland, or Flecha, or BB...), they can not get back to the peloton without drafting, impossible.
please just let them race, stop with all the ridiculousness, seriously hurting cycling with all this BS

I think the Hog was being sarcastic (or trying to get a rise out of other readers)

 

[JibberJim]

I think the problem for Gesink was that he got dropped by the large chase group once it formed, and was penalised for the drafting he did after that. So he wasn't dropped from the crash and given a little leeway to draft to get back to a group, he was straight out dropped after getting back to the group that had no more cars to draft.