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Apparently some riders/teams were not happy with commissaires decisions in the past two stages (Bennett relegation, time gaps yesterday)
Wrong time and place IMHO.
Wrong time and place IMHO.
Very sensible to delay the start then.
Froomie anticipating getting dropped by Mareczko
He is now the spokesperson for the gruppetto apparently.
They should've all just gone out to the start an hour early, and set off. If the entire peloton "jumped the gun", what can the commisaires do?
It's a problem of the dissonance that the 3" rule doesn't apply on uphill finishes, but yesterday's finish wasn't classified as a climb yet was quite demonstrably uphill to enough of an extent to create gaps, and frankly a finish like that makes the 3" rule a joke as how the hell Roglič and those at the front can't be assessed as having opened up a time gap on that finish is beyond me. However, if the rules state that the finish has to be a categorised climb for the 3" rule to not apply (in which case, what of races like the Benelux Tour that don't have a mountains classification?) then it should be applied and that would give Carapaz the jersey back. If that were to be correct, however, then the finish would make a mockery of the rule (although the Vuelta could easily rectify this by introducing 4th category climbs, which they don't have).
There was clearly a gap, it was electronically timed and the electronic timer proved that there was a gap
I understand that Froome is used to not following the rules, but this is one of the rare occasions where the rules are not broken to favor Sky/Ineos
I also understand that the riders don't want to finish in the dark but delaying the start then finishing in a huge gruppetto 2 hours behind the leaders doesn't help your cause
I understand that Froome is used to not following the rules, but this is one of the rare occasions where the rules are not broken to favor Sky/Ineos
I also understand that the riders don't want to finish in the dark but delaying the start then finishing in a huge gruppetto 2 hours behind the leaders doesn't help your cause
EF got involved, too... Aparantly, their DS lodged a complaint because Carthy lost 10 seconds due to the 3" rule change midstage... Again, classic communication failure between race organizers, UCI commissaires and the teams...
View: https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1322502280466341888?s=20
I think they should just get rid of the 3 second rule, go back strictly to the 1 second rule only on designated sprint stages with expected mass bunch sprints
I mean, it's a bad rule and hopefully this will be the trigger to change the rule
I mean, it's a bad rule and hopefully this will be the trigger to change the rule
Tim Wellens and Guillaume Martin kicking off the KOM points battle and trying to create a breakaway... As expected
Is this true???? I thought I saw him in red at the start...
View: https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1322504426519699457?s=20
View: https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1322504426519699457?s=20
EF sent the complaint to UCI yesterday but asked their riders not to get involved in a rider protest
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