Tour De France 2018

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Oliver Schick in reply to @Colonel_of_Truth

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.”

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jul/15/tour-de-france-chaos-cobbles-john-degenkolb-wins-stage-nine-roubaix-greg-van-avermaet

I don't know if that was the case for Greipel, too.

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Acliff in reply to @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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