The Tour as inspiration

[Bob Schwartz]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2005/tour05/?id=tour053/BOONEN22

[Scoot]

Bob Schwartz wrote:
> http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2005/tour05/?id=tour053/BOONEN22

What does relegation mean in the cycle racing world? Is he banished
from the race, from the team? Move to the back after a stern talking
to? Forced to eat paste from a jar?

Thanks for info

Scoot
Soli Deo Gloria

[RonSonic]

On 9 Jul 2006 19:09:05 -0700, "Scoot" > wrote:

>
>Bob Schwartz wrote:
>> http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2005/tour05/?id=tour053/BOONEN22
>
>What does relegation mean in the cycle racing world? Is he banished
>from the race, from the team? Move to the back after a stern talking
>to? Forced to eat paste from a jar?

He's ranked dead last for the day.

The paste thing was his idea.

Ron

[sonarrat]

Scoot wrote:
> Bob Schwartz wrote:
>
>>http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2005/tour05/?id=tour053/BOONEN22
>
>
> What does relegation mean in the cycle racing world? Is he banished
> from the race, from the team? Move to the back after a stern talking
> to? Forced to eat paste from a jar?
>
> Thanks for info
>
> Scoot
> Soli Deo Gloria

It means you have to tow Ivan Quaranta's fat ass over the freeway
overpasses for the rest of the Tour.

-Sonarrat.

[sonarrat]

RonSonic wrote:
> On 9 Jul 2006 19:09:05 -0700, "Scoot" > wrote:
>
>
>>Bob Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2005/tour05/?id=tour053/BOONEN22
>>
>>What does relegation mean in the cycle racing world? Is he banished
>
>>from the race, from the team? Move to the back after a stern talking
>
>>to? Forced to eat paste from a jar?
>
>
> He's ranked dead last for the day.
>
> The paste thing was his idea.
>
> Ron

Actually just last in the group you finished in.. so if you get
relegated in a two-man sprint 5 minutes ahead of the pack, you still get
second place.

[Bob Martin]

in 512837 20060710 042442 Sonarrat > wrote:

>Actually just last in the group you finished in.. so if you get
>relegated in a two-man sprint 5 minutes ahead of the pack, you still get
>second place.

I remember a tour finish some years ago where both members of a two-man
sprint were found guilty and relegated to the rear of the chasing peloton.

[Ewoud Dronkert]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:19:10 GMT, Bob Martin wrote:
>I remember a tour finish some years ago where both members of a two-man
>sprint were found guilty and relegated to the rear of the chasing peloton.

Bart Voskamp and Jens Heppner, Tour '97 stage 19.
http://away.com/outside/events/tdf97/stage19.html

--
E. Dronkert

[Bob Schwartz]

Sonarrat wrote:
> Scoot wrote:
>> Bob Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2005/tour05/?id=tour053/BOONEN22
>>
>> What does relegation mean in the cycle racing world? Is he banished
>> from the race, from the team? Move to the back after a stern talking
>> to? Forced to eat paste from a jar?
>
> It means you have to tow Ivan Quaranta's fat ass over the freeway
> overpasses for the rest of the Tour.

Much more humiliating than a red card. There are lots of Italians
you could drill and no one would think anything of it.

Bob Schwartz

[sonarrat]

Bob Schwartz wrote:
> Sonarrat wrote:
>
>> Scoot wrote:
>>
>>> Bob Schwartz wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2005/tour05/?id=tour053/BOONEN22
>>>
>>>
>>> What does relegation mean in the cycle racing world? Is he banished
>>> from the race, from the team? Move to the back after a stern talking
>>> to? Forced to eat paste from a jar?
>>
>>
>> It means you have to tow Ivan Quaranta's fat ass over the freeway
>> overpasses for the rest of the Tour.
>
>
> Much more humiliating than a red card. There are lots of Italians
> you could drill and no one would think anything of it.
>
> Bob Schwartz

Because they would already be 10 minutes behind everyone else?