Tour de France 2013

I'm going to say this right now (may have already said it somewhere here..) - I was underwhelmed by Sagan this year. Perhaps not underwhelmed by him as a rider, but by his approach and also by the way that points jersey is decided.

I am disappointed that the jersey went to someone who was clearly not the strongest sprinter (just the most consistent wheel sucker) —*whereas if you look at the KOM standings they seem pretty representative.

Cavendish and others have touched on it before, but it really does seem like sprinting is a devalued specialism in the tour - I would happily see intermediate sprints binned and a points system that is stacked in favour of the person who wins the stage.

Obvious arguments against this idea are that it would make it more predictable and the winner would win by a bigger margin (didn't seem to stop Sagan running away with it this year). However, it would at least be more representative and encourage an exciting rider like Sagan to make a bid to win other stages rather than just play the numbers game on the flat ones and roll in with the cunts on the rest.

Good points. Sagan was a shadow of the swaggering young turk he was last year, has spent a lot of energy chasing classics and a pointless (no pun intended) ride in the Tour of Cali for the benefit of the sponsors.

Of course the green jersey system has already been re-jigged, in order to address the fact that Cav was consistently winning the most stages but Hushovd was just as consistently hoovering up the green jersey despite being a massive cunt and getting beat everytime the two of them went head to head, unless he cried to the commissaires. Or Renshaw went feral and ate someone else's head in the final k.

They can't change it further to favour the flat stage sprinters over a puncheur like Sagan, so what they should have is a stage winner's jersey, and perhaps something at the end for the winningest rider, although most will say winning stages is reward enough in itself.

That said, the anticipated green jersey battle never really m,aterialised and was porbably the dullest competition in the race. Perhaps Sagan realised it was as dull as 15 years old pants and tried to over-compensate with zany hi-jinks i.e. popping lots of wheelies. That kid is cuh-razy