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Originally Posted by iab
OK, I am going to take the contrary view from most everyone else, I think Adam Yates should be in yellow and Froome should be disqualified.
The problem with that is Yates' time already includes an adjustment that was given to him when a fan dropped the 1K -to-go banner on him in stage 7.

Originally Posted by iab
And before someone goes off about fan interference unheard of in any other sport, I have 2 words, Steve Bartman. For you non-Cub fans, he interfered with an easy fly out. If that ball was caught, the Cubs would have gone to the World Series for the first time since 1945. Now, they probably would have lost the series, but the curse of the billy goat still lives on.
Great example. Jeffrey Maier is the fan who will forever live in my nightmares.



At least cycling doesn't tell you the names of these interfering fans.
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