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Originally Posted by jyl
Baz, no-one was moving right in a way that forced Sagan to move right. Demare was well ahead of Sagan and was moving left to cut in front of Bouhanni. Bouchanni was also ahead of Sagan and sprinting in a straight line for once. There was no-one immediately to Sagan's left. The overhead makes that very clear.
I think they can get away with closing a gap that a rival is aiming to get into. Maybe that's not technically permitted but sprinters don't usually get penalized for it, unless they have a pattern of doing it like Bouhanni, who gets penalized at the drop of a hat now. But if you've let your rival get into the gap - as Cav clearly was, his body was partly overlapping Sagan's body - then I think closing the gap becomes riding the guy into the barriers. Big no-no.
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Cav hit PS first and this caused PS to lose his balance. If Cav doesn't run into PS....PS would have been OK.
You can't just run into other riders without consequence. Once you run into another rider....all bets are off, essentially.
There shouldn't have been any penalties but if there were Cav should have been penalized.
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Originally Posted by Scott Douglas
I agree with jyl on this (not that my opinion matters, but what the heck).
The DQ came from PS riding Cav into the barriers. Shouldn't have happened since there's the whole road to their left to play in.
I'm disappointed in the commentators not having much to say about this at the start of today's coverage. They went right into covering the ride today. Last night's Prime time show didn't have much new if anything to say about it either.
Are they (NBCSN, commentators) worried about stepping on someone's toes by voicing a decenting opinion?
Or is it a case of they know who's paying the bills?
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There was discussion off and on throughout the entire stage. Including at the start. Maybe we watched different viewings but I thought it was a hot topic today.