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"The Big One in the TdeF."
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07-07-15, 10:12 AM (EST)
 
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"The Big One in the TdeF." |
I lost interest after the doping investigation fiasco and dual standards judging, but this caught my eye. 20 or so involved in a massive pile up, and Cancellara broke bones in his back.http://tinyurl.com/crashTdeF Apparently one rider's (William Bonnet's) bike collapsed on a straight flat run with riders all at full speed, and a whole pile of riders just kept piling into him and each other. It's a wonder that Bonnet, who was hit repeatedly and who seemed to be at the bottom of the pile, wasn't killed. Or maybe the verdict is still out on that. I guess now my only interest is to watch the crashes. As to the dual standards, I read where this year a number of riders were tested positive for banned drugs, but weren't banned, and were actually allowed to participate. .
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07-08-15, 02:59 PM (EST)
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1. "RE: The Big One in the TdeF." |
Cancellara's crash brought back memories of Armstrong's ride over a field to avoid a similar disaster in the 2003 TdF:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr89ku-K2WU But of course the Armstrong witchhunt has consigned all of those great moments to the dustbin of time and fading memory. Unlike Armstrong, when Cancellara (who, like Armstrong, was in the yellow jersey at the time) went into the field, he almost immediately flipped over his handlebars and broke a couple of bones -- see from 2:18 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44D43ttvkNA.
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4. "Wrap-up of 2015" |
Chris Froome of Britain (who grew up in Kenya) won his second TdF, although he had to hold off a furious challenge from Colombian rider Nairo Quintana on the closing stages -- since the race didn't have an individual time trial (except for the very short prologue), Quintana's weakness in that event didn't hurt him, and he finished just 72 seconds behind.After that was over, the focus of international cycling moved to the US (where it has become invisible). In the two major one-week US stage races in August, American Joe Dombrowski of the American team Cannondale-Garmin won the Tour of Utah and Australian Rohan Dennis of the American BMC Racing Team won the US Pro Challenge. Nobody noticed. Now we're on to the three-week Vuelta, the last of the three Grand Tours, as of August 22. Froome and Quintana both entered, and they have to be considered the favorites, although Colombian Esteban Chaves of the Australian Orica-GREENEDGE team has jumped off to the early lead.
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