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Typically, top riders do not try to take advantage of the misfortunes of other top riders. You want to win, fair and square, based on your performance - not based on a mechanical issue or crash.
So on the one hand, it's a race and Contador was attacked and then countered when he saw Schleck was in trouble. And that's fair.
On the other hand, in the past, Lance would have waited (like when Jan Ullrich went off the side of the road - not exactly the same situation, but still, he waited for his main rival to get back up and onto his bike and back up to Lance).
So what Alberto did was questionable and he would have scored points with fans if he had not attacked knowing Schleck was having mechanical difficulties, but it wasn't necessarily the worst thing, either.
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