@timarchy: yeah fair point, I guess what I was trying to say is that with parenthood around the corner perhaps sagan’s mindful of the way he treats others and develops an understanding that actions no matter how big or small have consequences. I still laugh thinking about the dumb stuff like in 2015 fresh from the charlie hebdo attack, standing on the podium alongside froome and quintana glances down at his trophy transforming it into a machine gun pretending to pewpewpew the celebratory crowd. lollin’, imagine if a little sagan pulled a similar stunt in the classroom during a show and tell?
my guess is sagan as we know will mature spritually once he holds his beautiful baby for the first time, the most excitement we’ll see from him are wheelies in grand tours.
well, with four stage wins kittel’s on fire and no one was able to hold his wheel as he crossed the finish line.
was anyone surprised by bouhanni’s actions today? the commissaires penalized him 200 swiss francs, deducted a minute from his overall time as if he was in contention for GC and every second mattered. this is nothing more than a slap on wrist, too light of a penalty for a person that continues to ride like a fuckin’ punk.
I’m just doing the youtube watching, I cant stand SKY (Cable) , such a scam in NZ. What I am enjoying is watching the kiwis do well. What I find the most interesting, is that none of them were stand-out “freaks” in their younger days. I was coaching back then so I was able to observe a fair bit. Jack Bauer was a bike messenger for a while, and I mostly saw him as an MTBer, and he wasn’t that flash TBH. I had a protoge who was really good, as an MTBer and he would beat George Bennett almost every time, and George was pretty good, but this guy was better. I think its great, because it shows that there are many ways to be pro cyclist, I think that if you have the desire you can do it, it might take some time, as people have different trajectories.
Who else saw that obnoxious piece of plastic Froome had shoved up his nose during the post race interviews? He should ditch the tacky turbino whatever it’s called and just get a bull ring. We get to watch him, Landa, and the rest of Sky dogpile Aru for a week. Other than side stories like Bennett it’s Uran that’s making the race for me. I hope he gets on the podium by the end. Fuck a bunch of that french favoritism bullshit with uneven late feed penalties.
Wait, so Uran and Bennett were penalized for taking a late bottle and Bardet wasn’t, and when presented with irrefutable evidence that Bardet took a bottle too, no penalties for anyone? What a fuckin shit show.
