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Old July 10th 17, 07:09 PM posted to rec.bicycles.racing
Theodore Heise[_2_]
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Default Peter Sagan

On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 08:11:20 -0700 (PDT),
Tom Kunich wrote:
On Friday, July 7, 2017 at 2:56:15 AM UTC-7, Turbo wrote:
On 2017-07-07, Tom Kunich wrote:
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.


No matter the reason why the arm went out, at the time the arm
went out, Cavendish was already falling on the right side.

So, arm has nothing to do with the crash.

Question is only whether Sagan knew that Cav is there when he
moved right...

Regarding keeping line, sprint was chaotic, Sagan is not only
one that whas changing the line.

But crush 1500m from finish, that was epic break through two
riders


It doesn't matter if Sagan knew he was there or not. It is not
a sprinter's responsibility to make room for a man behind him.

This was not simply a bad decision of the race jury, but an
insulting one that makes you wonder what is going on.


Gotta agree with you to this point.


...We've heard it said that this years course was planned with
less climbing to try and break Team Sky and Froome's domination
of the event.


Wouldn't surprise me in the least, and it also seems reasonable.
The more competitive the race is, the greater the interest (and
that can't hurt viewership or revenuw).


I believe that courses should be changed so that they give all
specialists a try at the yellow but I do not believe that any
course should be purposely aimed at eliminating a team.


How are these different if the course favors a certain style, and
a team has been developed to take advantage of the style?

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