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lol - if you penalised every rider who did that, there’d be no riders left at the end of every stage race. It happens all the time. Nibali was unlucky because he got filmed doing it.
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I'm sure they all do it to get back to the peloton but he was filmed doing it to go from a chasing group back to the front group while they were already going quick.
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You never see people pulled from one group to the next though; bridging a small gap to get back into the group is one thing, this is absolutely another
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Haha maybe I’m just naive then, but aside from the numerous sticky bottles and alan keys you half see on tv all the time I’d assumed gc favourites in a WT grand tour wouldn’t be so blatantly motor pacing themselves back.
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jupiz
Possibly referring to his propensity to zoom off the front of a chasing group whilst hanging off his team car