Originally Posted by thunder
Walter Walter Walter, got footage of the stage 2 sprint? He was following an echelon/sprinting line he had no right to follow because he was crossing all these sprinters' lines behind him. If you watch it is very obvious. Overcoming the CSC doco shows an upclose of it, and then you see him look down at his crank arm, but after he made his shift for the racing line. The mechanical had nothing to do with it.
Just what is your motive in this specious claim. Take a look, any objective person would see that. His place on that stage was not too much further back than Davis. Boonen got sprint points also.
You are a fool son.
Personally I think anyone who takes a discussion of a bike race seriously enough to call someone a fool over it has some serious motivation problems.
Boonen broke his pedal on stage 2 in the 2004 TDF. I guess you didn't know that. His looking at his cranks wasn't enough of a clue for you? Maybe if he held up a sign a that said, "I broke my pedal.", for the camera so you could see it on your WCP dvd you'd be convinced? He wasn't relegated, none of the riders affected by his move complained(even though Casper and Arveson were both crashed), and it was because it was a mechanical.
and my motive for saying this is to talk about bike racing.
Only a coward calls names on the internet.
