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I'm pretty sure he was, then he got detached in the chaos around the crash.
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Whichever way you look at it, it'll be a shit storm from someone's perspective..
I'm struggling to think of something as chaotic* in previous races but really the incident is born of its times:
More spectators
More spectators 'interacting with the race' - to get on TV, selfies etc etc
More motorbikes
More "safety" - counterintuitive but the shortening of the stage forced thousands of fans 6km down the mountain, clogging the last km to Chalet ReynardFrom what I can gather, all teams** accept the decision. That says a lot.
*Guerini on Alpe d'Huez springs to mind...
** Valverde is probably moaning somewhere.
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Because Quintana's group were baulked by the incident too, as there wasn't enough room to get through. So the commissaires gave Quintana, Valverde and Van Garderen the same time as the Yates/Bardet group.
Which seems fair to to me.