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Not sure I see your point Balwer Send a noteboard - 15/07/2010 10:10:32 PM
The peleton didn't wait when Andy fell earlier in the Tour, his team went back and helped bring him back up. Thankfully at the time it was a flat stage and the peleton wasn't riding particularly hard.


To be fair, Cancellara did do what he could to keep the peleton from riding hard and to not sprint at the end of the stage. Of course unlike yesterdays stage, it wasn't one the GC contenders were looking to make time on which made a big difference and the reason for stopping the sprint was clearly in protest at the risk on the stage, as it made no difference at all to the GC contenders.

So I agree with your overall point that it came down to luck as to on which stage and where abouts in it people crashed, I'm just being a bit pedantic about exactly what happened:P


Schleck caught up midway through the stage, long before Cancellara held the peloton out of a bunch sprint in protest to the number of crashes that had occured earlier on. Any crashes that occur early in a flat stage are always recoverable, but ones at the start of a long climb late in a stage are not. But yes, luck plays the biggest part. If Schleck had fallen just before a climb Armstrong and co would have done the same thing to him or any other potential GC threat.
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/Tour de France: Regarding yesterday Camilla - 12/07/2010 10:22:45 AM 619 Views
Me! snoopcester - 12/07/2010 10:26:52 AM 539 Views
Re: Me! Camilla - 12/07/2010 05:30:23 PM 528 Views
Re: Me! snoopcester - 13/07/2010 12:44:01 PM 538 Views
I hate him! Milla - 12/07/2010 11:56:50 AM 565 Views
Cheater? When did he cheat? snoopcester - 12/07/2010 12:11:37 PM 555 Views
1 day, when his team stopped the sprint, cause he fell. Milla - 12/07/2010 12:14:45 PM 493 Views
Ah. I don't see that as cheating since people could have sprinted if they'd wanted. snoopcester - 12/07/2010 12:40:35 PM 558 Views
Not really... Milla - 12/07/2010 12:47:25 PM 477 Views
This is woefully uninformed Balwer - 12/07/2010 02:38:35 PM 548 Views
I'm not sure that is quite right either snoopcester - 12/07/2010 02:57:56 PM 566 Views
Not sure I see your point Balwer - 15/07/2010 10:10:32 PM 568 Views
I think we do disagree on how the Cancellara slow up worked snoopcester - 16/07/2010 11:32:52 AM 549 Views
Ahhh we are talking about different falls! Balwer - 20/07/2010 02:26:23 PM 543 Views
Re: Ah. I don't see that as cheating since people could have sprinted if they'd wanted. Camilla - 12/07/2010 05:31:38 PM 518 Views
Re: Ah. I don't see that as cheating since people could have sprinted if they'd wanted. snoopcester - 13/07/2010 12:45:11 PM 509 Views
Re: Ah. I don't see that as cheating since people could have sprinted if they'd wanted. Camilla - 13/07/2010 12:51:03 PM 525 Views
Re: Ah. I don't see that as cheating since people could have sprinted if they'd wanted. snoopcester - 13/07/2010 12:54:29 PM 547 Views
Re: Ah. I don't see that as cheating since people could have sprinted if they'd wanted. Camilla - 13/07/2010 12:56:41 PM 570 Views
Re: Ah. I don't see that as cheating since people could have sprinted if they'd wanted. snoopcester - 13/07/2010 01:14:22 PM 524 Views
Re: 1 day, when his team stopped the sprint, cause he fell. Camilla - 13/07/2010 12:11:02 PM 545 Views
Re: I hate him! Camilla - 12/07/2010 05:30:47 PM 514 Views
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