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Old July 8th 17, 02:53 PM posted to rec.bicycles.racing
Davey Crockett[_13_]
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Tom Kunich a écrit profondement:

| On Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 8:42:51 AM UTC-7, Michael wrote:
| On Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at 8:47:56 AM UTC-5, Tom Kunich wrote:
| I looked as closely at the bad coverage as possible.
|
| To me it appeared that Cavendish crossed Sagan's back wheel and
| touched it throwing Sagan slightly off-balance and all Sagan did
| was to re-balance himself. That was the elbow going out. Not to
| block Cavendish but to regain balance.
|
| I couldn't even tell if Sagan's elbow even contacted
| Cavendish. And Cavendish was unclear about it in his
| interview. Though he was in a great deal of pain and so being
| unclear is more than forgivable.
|
| I find it extremely irritating that a "jury" would believe that it
| is a sprinter's job to move out of the way of someone coming from
| behind.
|
| 100 percent agree. Sagan said he didn't see Cavendish. There was
| about a bike length between Damare and Cavendish, and when Damare
| passed Sagan, Sagan followed. It looked like Sagan's move frustrated
| Cavendish, so he pushed his head and shoulder into Sagan to get
| Sagan out of Cavendish's way, causing his own fall. Very unfortunate
| all the way around.

| This morning they put a slo-mo on so that you could see what
| happened. It was Cavendish leaning against Sagan and Sagan's arm went
| out only to maintain his balance.

Truly unfortunate.

But a large portion of the "blame", or "negligence" belonged to
Cavendish.


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