Cormcolash
Well-Known Member
I've definitely seen gravel in some race before for sure, but I can't remember which it was, and yeah it sure wasn't as class as that Giro stage
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el bolo del mundo in la vuelta is a dirt track at >25%. It was the climb that renowned doper David Millar complained about and said cyclists were being treated like circus monkeys.I've definitely seen gravel in some race before for sure, but I can't remember which it was, and yeah it sure wasn't as class as that Giro stage
yeah that sounds fairly accurate but if the internet mob demand sanctions then that's a factor too, so popularity can come into it.
I think Bouhanni has being singled out for a long time and there is a witch hunt that is fuelling racism against him.
until a sprint in Paris Nice in 2016 where Bouhanni was correctly DQed for dangerous sprinting which almost caused Michael Matthews to crash I'd never seen him do anything out of order but a lot of people hated him even before then.
Bouhanni knew what he was doing - no defence that time.
but what happened to Jake Stewart (FDJ) was not comparable and IMO you couldn't say it was deliberate anymore than many other incidents.
YES - Bouhanni deserved to be disqualified in Cholet. it was dangerous but to say this was 'deliberate' is
a big step and I think unfair.
it seems if a load of people complain or if the sport looks bad they do something otherwise - nah, no ban.
here is the finish of the 2015 French Champs. Bouhanni (Cofidis) is taken out by an FDJ rider when he was set to win the national title at the peak of his career.
the commentary is a few seconds out of sync ahead of the pictures.
wreckless but not deliberate sprinting by Anthony Roux similar to Ackermann last year in Scheldeprijs.
Roux was DQ but no ban.
in the Tour afterwards Bouhanni already messed up from this crash came down in several more peloton crashes (none of which were his fault) and had to quit in the first week.
in 2017 Arnaud Demare went fairly sideways in a sprint in the French Champs to beat Bouhanni.
it was just about legal under strict sprinting rules and the result stood.
maybe the biggest pile up I've ever seen in a sprint was in the Tour de Suisse in 2010. there was a protest against Cavendish the next day. Arnaud Coyot broke his hip in this crash. video ends @1:40
strangely the you tube comments don't really blame Cav!!
unbelievably Cavendish was allowed start the following stage and was only fined 200 Francs. WTF?Tour de Suisse 2010: Stage 4 Results | Cyclingnews.com
Find out the latest news, stage reports, race scores and expert analysis from the 2010 Tour de Suisse Stage 4. Cyclingnews.com: The world centre of cycling.www.cyclingnews.com
see stage 5 report:
Tour de Suisse 2010: Stage 5 Results | Cyclingnews.com
Find out the latest news, stage reports, race scores and expert analysis from the 2010 Tour de Suisse Stage 5. Cyclingnews.com: The world centre of cycling.www.cyclingnews.com
Mark Cavendish's fellow riders in protest at Tour of Switzerland crash
Mark Cavendish has been licking his wounds after angering fellow riders over the crash in the Tour of Switzerlandwww.theguardian.com
I am mentally unable to deal with hypocrisy in case you can't tell.
PS: Arnaud Coyot died in a car accident in 2013. never knew that until just now....
Peloton pays its respects to Arnaud Coyot | Cyclingnews.com
Tributes following Frenchman’s death in car crashwww.cyclingnews.com
this is so true. Teams used to assign him a 'minder'. For years that was Bernhard Eisel. It wouldn't be uncommon for a protected rider to have a minder, but Eisel was more than that for Cavendish. He was like his minder, his mother, and her personal security guard all rolled into one. I never thought I'd see one race without the other.I'd say a psychologist would have a lot of fun with Cav.
he's very vulnerable and needs a lot of validation.
yayGood News: Pippa York is in the studio with
booooOrla and
fucking booooooooooooooWiggo on Eurosport.
this is a sprint finish in stage 7 of the 1982 Giro. I found this looking for footage of Moser, Saronni and Hinault a few years ago.
in a battle between Giuseppe Saronni (3rd Del Tongo, yellow), Franceso Moser (Italian champ, right) and Paolo Rosola (Atala, blue and silver hoops, on left) the Maglia Rosa is on the line for the stage winner.
@ 6:10 Moser leads out the sprint but Rosola draws level and raises his hands to celebrate the win BUT
it's extremely close and it takes 8 minutes to declare a winner @ 14:25
then winner jumps up and heads to edge of the podium to accept the adulation!
the crowd love it and go crazy! great stuff. also features Hinault who lost the pink jersey that day.
proper old school Italian chaos.
Rosola (b. 1957) who won 12 Giro stages was from Gussago the same Lombard town as Guido Bontempi (b. 1960) who won 16 Giro stages and 26 G.T. stages in total.
Rosola won 3 Giro stages in 1987 and the photos of him pouring a bottle of wine over his head (complete with his little ponytail) was a classic image.
the Atala team's blue and silver hoops were an integral part of Italian cycling for most of the 20th century winning the first ever Giro. the team finally folded at the end of the 80's.
serial top 10 finisher in big races Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig finally won her first World Tour race at the weekend.
the interview at the 2019 Tour of Flanders launched her online media career -
''Let's put the hammer down!'' ''Happy Dead Fish!"
the women's 2018 La Course race before a Tour de France stage in 2018 was one the best races of the year won by her team mate Annemeik Van Vleuten in a epic battle with Van der Breggen. IMO only Nibali's San Remo win was better that year. a very emotional Cecilie was 4th on the day.
a great day the women racers were really psyched about
''IF YOU EVER HAVE PROBLEMS WITH BAD LEGS, YOU KNOW PULL YOUR WISDOM TOOTH OUT!''
boooo, another sky fanboy creepKilian Kelly
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