Originally Posted by
Hezz
I could not tell if he was shifting but he hit a bump in the road that knocked his chain off. My feeling is that he shifted and accelerated at the same time that he hit the bump. The combination knocked his chain off. From the TV camera it was easy to see. But from the other racers point of view it may have not been so easy to see what happened while riding with such intensity and being so focused on riding hard.
The ONLY rider who could use that excuse was Vino, who was the first to respond to Schleck's attack, and was maybe 10 feet behind when the chain dropped.
Contador was still
thirty feet behind when Andy sat up and started looking down at his chain dragging on the asphalt. Menchov and Sanchez were another 30 feet back from that, not making any kind of response at all.
There is zero possibility that Contador, Sanchez, and Menchov were unaware of Schleck's issue.