A Team Time Trial and a pair of rainy sprints.
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A Team Time Trial and a pair of rainy sprints.
Music: https://soundcloud.com/bill-craig/molly-malone-2013
Thanks again CC. Would Love a clarification from the ‘spert.
BG: Matt White at GIRO12 -Youtube VID#: “a2rfSWDc5S0” 3min 40sec: in for his comment.
Movistar & FDJ both had moments up that rise where riders displayed some backdoor lovin.
Did it actually contravene a UCI rule? (maybe it has changed lately).
Imagine – Quintana DQ’d for a schoolboy error. Expletive deleted, very deleted
Copied over my reply from YouTube, in case there are some takedown issues: “That is verrrrrry curious—I suppose there must be some flexibility in how the rule is interpreted and enforced (welcome to cycling…) but still. The Movistar tap could be overlooked, but the epic FDJ shove, not so much…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2rfSWDc5S0&t=3m40s
Love the attention to idiosyncratic details that I miss because I can’t bring myself to watch 100km of a flat stage. Thanks for putting in the hard work for us. Oh, and thanks for getting these up so quickly of late!