Cycling thread

Armel said:
I am hoping for Kittel or Greipel; with Sagan second (traditions and all that). Cavendish would surprise me since he has been out with glandular fever , his form can't be all that atm, recently in the Tour of Slovenia he was beaten by Sam Bennett.
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...I tried to get a bet on Fabio Aru yesterday for outright winner at 16-1, only because he was tipped in my Racing Post but the best price available was 12s so I didn't bother.
 

Eggs said:
...I tried to get a bet on Fabio Aru yesterday for outright winner at 16-1, only because he was tipped in my Racing Post but the best price available was 12s so I didn't bother.
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He's 13s here. Which is very strange since the chances of him winning are really quite marginal and involve others having calamities/making tactical errors.
 
Eggs said:
...I tried to get a bet on Fabio Aru yesterday for outright winner at 16-1, only because he was tipped in my Racing Post but the best price available was 12s so I didn't bother.
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I'm on Porte for the GC @2/1 a few weeks back and a cover on Sagan for the Green jersey @ 4/6.
I'm massively unlucky in this usually however, so a ridiculous crash involving both would not be any surprise at all.
 

Will be interesting to see if Sagan can keep his points or not. Will be an interesting discussion; did he use the elbow for balance or deliberately.

The winner would have stayed the same though. Good sprint from Démare.
 
Armel said:
Will be interesting to see if Sagan can keep his points or not. Will be an interesting discussion; did he use the elbow for balance or deliberately.

The winner would have stayed the same though. Good sprint from Démare.
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It gets worse every time you see it, no way it was "for balance".
 
tsubaki said:
It gets worse every time you see it, no way it was "for balance".
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Eh he didn't use his elbow; I have to rephrase that. His elbow didn't touch him.

Robbie is accurate:



At the end of the day it's for the jury to decide the intention. You might as well interpret it as Cavendish going into a closing gap. Or you can see it as Sagan going of his line.

I say this is fair:



Gets place 115 and 30 sec penalty.
 
Oh and now they also took 80 points from him for the Green jersey. That's ridiculous. French chauvinism at his best; knew they'd want to help Démarre.

Also having watched the sprint again; you might as well sanction Démarre. He also didn't follow a straight line. Look here, he almost pushes Bouhanni of his bike.

 
Armel said:
Oh and now they also took 80 points from him for the Green jersey. That's ridiculous. French chauvinism at his best; knew they'd want to help Démarre.

Also having watched the sprint again; you might as well sanction Démarre. He also didn't follow a straight line. Look here, he almost pushes Bouhanni of his bike.

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Demarre went through a gap and didn't affect anyone. Sagan closed off a gap, wiped out Cavendish (and the blokes behind him), and there is the elbow as well.
 

tsubaki said:
Demarre went through a gap and didn't affect anyone. Sagan closed off a gap, wiped out Cavendish (and the blokes behind him), and there is the elbow as well.
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Eh yes he did watch the 4 twitter pics. He almost fell of his bike. He also had to temporarily stop his sprint you can't do that (see top-view of the sprint video), almost got out of one of his pedals.

There is no elbow; watch it in slow motion. I also initially thought there was an elbow but then I saw Backsted's and Robbie's tweet and they say there was none and true enough there is no elbow.

 
Massive call that. Like sending off Messi for a rash challenge in the opening 5 mins of the champions league final.

Gut feeling is it's very harsh decision. Chance of an appeal?
 

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