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Somehow Bardet came in only 34 seconds behind the leaders.
Well, there may be a kernel of truth in that, but ...
[...] White, like Tom Dumoulin after last Thursday’s stage to Mûr de Bretagne, also accused race officials of turning a blind eye to some blatant drafting by rival teams.
“TV motorbikes were in the way today, and they’ve been in the way a lot this week,” he said. “When they tow multiple guys back on to the peloton – the group of Bardet and Mikel Landa came back through the cars inside the last three kilometres, that shouldn’t happen. You judge if it’s been the same for everyone.”
I don't know if that was the case for Greipel, too.
Oliver Schick-
Less chance of Bardet or French riders getting penalised, and drafting an TV moto is probably the safest thing to draft to avoid sanctions.
If course, if it were Froome, he would have been sanctioned...
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I was looking very closely at the time Bardet/Landa and Uran were loosing to the peloton as I was giving feed to a friend who couldn’t watch. I have it all write down because I was messaging him the times. Bardet’s group was loosing about 50s at 10km to the finish as well as about 40s 5 km to the finish. They were having a really, really hard time chasing. This is time to the peloton so Froomes/Majka’s group. Then when I saw he’s only 7 s behind at the finish like I was like “dayum, there must have been an issue with data tracking from individual riders”.
Perhaps that wasn’t the case.
And Greipel crashed at the 7th km with Porte. He got back on the bike quickly but had his right wrist looked at by the medical car physio.
Acliff
Pawlus
Somehow Bardet came in only 34 seconds behind the leaders. Proper hard day out for him, bet he's glad it's rest day tomorrow.