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Although I do think it's s fair decision I do think that the time loss would have made for more interesting riding. What with the ITT tomorrow and everything.
That said there are far too many incident with flippin motos where they influence results, and injure and even kill riders. Today was a balls up by the organisers and motos, it needs to be sorted out and stopped from happening ever.
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Yates should be gutted-freak incidents are part and parcel imhop and
there's been many other occasions where the disadvantaged party has
been left to suck it or simply been injured and unable to continue.
Hoogerland anyone? Ted King? You either play the magnanimous
arbitrator for all people or none at all...The problem is the organisers are more magnanimous towards some riders than others because all riders are equal but some (the higher profile riders, and the riders who are winning) are more equal than others.
See this tweet from Tom Dumoulin:
https://twitter.com/tom_dumoulin/status/753664299449643008(He later tweeted "Easy to joke about it in my position of course. But what was going on there in the last kilometers?? Should never have happened!", but your call on whether he meant the original tweet or not).
Thing is though, this isn't simple favouritism. After the Gerrans/Stannard crash the peloton could have chosen to leave Froome behind when he stopped for his felled teammates, but they didn't. Cancellara backed him up, Valverde was persuaded (apparently he wanted to press on) but a truce was called.
The question is, where do you stop? How bad does a pitfall affecting the yellow jersey have to be? It's a grey area. Froome hadn't even crashed when Stannard and Gerrans went down with 33km to go, so why did they wait?
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Yates benefited from time back when the thing fell on him so be a bit hypocritical of him to complain. He seemed totally gentlemanly about it post race.
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Je ne comprends pas.
You go to work, drink a beer, come home and Froome's forlornly running up a mountain, then riding a circus bike, then crying himself over the line....
Then gets put back in yellow.
Yates should be gutted-freak incidents are part and parcel imhop and there's been many other occasions where the disadvantaged party has been left to suck it or simply been injured and unable to continue. Hoogerland anyone? Ted King? You either play the magnanimous arbitrator for all people or none at all...