"The 33"-Road Bike Racing - World Masters Games 2010 - commentary, spoilers, opinions etc

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kuf
07-25-10, 10:04 PM
Kinda sits funny with me between the yellow hinging on chaingate and the green being decided due to a neutralized field...kinda cheapens it for me.

Schleck and Contador were pretty much equal at climbing, and Contador was better at the TT, so the right guy won in the end.

True Thor might have won stage 2 if it wasn't neutralized. But then maybe Oscar Freire would have won it, so that didn't really decide it.

ridethecliche
07-25-10, 10:27 PM
I think he caused a couple of crashes in the past 2 races but it seems when he does win he is pretty safe.

Which sprinter doesn't?

He's just the best right now, which is why everyone picks on him. Sprinting is dangerous business. I think that he's so dominant now that everyone else tries to pull something stupid so they can screw with him, i.e. the garmin fiasco.
efficiency
07-25-10, 10:39 PM
What Garmin fiasco?

umd
07-25-10, 10:41 PM
Maybe he means Renshaw vs. Dean?
rog
07-26-10, 07:14 AM
Which sprinter doesn't?

He's just the best right now, which is why everyone picks on him. Sprinting is dangerous business. I think that he's so dominant now that everyone else tries to pull something stupid so they can screw with him, i.e. the garmin fiasco.

That's a remarkably stupid suggestion
El Diablo Rojo
07-26-10, 07:50 AM
I don't really think he endangers other sprinters any more than the next sprinter...

Haussler and Boonen may disagree, and Cav was at fault in the stage 2 crash at the Tour this year.
ridethecliche
07-26-10, 08:09 AM
And yeah, umd, I was talking about Dean. They were trying to derail him because they can't beat him. I know it is sprinting and that happens, but that was pretty risky and stupid, imho.


Haussler and Boonen may disagree, and Cav was at fault in the stage 2 crash at the Tour this year.

Fair enough.


That's a remarkably stupid suggestion

I think he has a big mouth, but that doesn't mean that he has a dangerous sprint every time. I'm sure if you look back, most of the other good sprinters have had some close calls where others had to sit up or such to avoid a crash.
mattm
07-26-10, 08:23 AM
And yeah, umd, I was talking about Dean. They were trying to derail him because they can't beat him. I know it is sprinting and that happens, but that was pretty risky and stupid, imho.

That wasn't a Garmin fiasco, it was an HTC fiasco - Renshaw was DQ'd after all..