Froome out of the Tour due to Dauphine Crash (Update: He's back)

[Mzilliox]

Originally Posted by mcteague

Thanks for the spoiler! I just started watching yesterday’s stage on DVR. Please don’t put race outcomes in the subject line.

Tim

its not a race outcome, he did it on his recon. it wasnt part of any race.

[FlashUNC]

Originally Posted by mcteague

Thanks for the spoiler! I just started watching yesterday’s stage on DVR. Please don’t put race outcomes in the subject line.

Tim

It was a crash during a recon ride, so not a race result.

Also it's the Dauphine.

[madsciencenow]

Originally Posted by prototoast

Froome crashed before the stage. It's not a spoiler and there's no video.

Fair point but it’s still a bit of a knowledge that impacts viewing the race.


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[yinzerniner]

Originally Posted by madsciencenow

Fair point but it’s still a bit of a knowledge that impacts viewing the race.


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By that measure it's not appropriate to post the weather, course and/or stage specifics, standings, injury reports, or any other knowledge directly or indirectly affecting the race conditions?

A rider leaving a race from injuries sustained in a recon ride is NOT A RACE SPOILER. Full stop.

[Clean39T]

Originally Posted by FlashUNC

Also it's the Dauphine.

[madsciencenow]

Originally Posted by yinzerniner

By that measure it's not appropriate to post the weather, course and/or stage specifics, standings, injury reports, or any other knowledge directly or indirectly affecting the race conditions?

A rider leaving a race from injuries sustained in a recon ride is NOT A RACE SPOILER. Full stop.

If you look at my original post you see I indicated I wasn't serious about this being a spoiler. I then followed with a comment that said that it does impact how you view the race the same as knowledge about weather or any other detail would. I'm not advocating that it's a spoiler and am sorry if you read it this way.

[unterhausen]

Froome not winning last year was the first time in a while that I've been interested in the tour.

But on a human note, this is a very bad injury and I hope he recovers.

[ColonelJLloyd]

Originally Posted by FlashUNC

Not least of which because he also physically just looks like skin stretched over a skeleton.

The surprising part to me is that, with such awkward appendages, he has not seriously injured his legs or elbows more often.

Originally Posted by unterhausen

Froome not winning last year was the first time in a while that I've been interested in the tour.

Terrible way to get there, yes, but this also makes this year's tour more interesting to me.

[chiasticon]

poor dude. hopefully he has a speedy and full recovery.

regardless of how you feel about him as a rider, that's just brutal.

[kramnnim]

Wonder what Geraint thought when he heard about it.

[yinzerniner]

Originally Posted by madsciencenow

If you look at my original post you see I indicated I wasn't serious about this being a spoiler. I then followed with a comment that said that it does impact how you view the race the same as knowledge about weather or any other detail would. I'm not advocating that it's a spoiler and am sorry if you read it this way.

Definitely missed your first post, so have to retract the sturm und drang.

Originally Posted by kramnnim

Wonder what Geraint thought when he heard about it.

Can't see it as anything other than a negative reaction from Thomas. While it does get rid of a "rival" it can only hurt his actual chances since it removes a great rider from the team. If Thomas really thought he was the stronger rider for this year's TdF then he would have welcomed the chance to prove it in the early stages before the team decided to make Froome and Bernal the super domestiques. Also must have hurt a lot to see a friend suffer a possible career-ending injury right before having a shot at history.

[berserk87]

If there's any team that could absorb such a hit to its grand tour hopes, it would be Ineos.

[unterhausen]

Originally Posted by ColonelJLloyd

Terrible way to get there, yes, but this also makes this year's tour more interesting to me.

I was hoping to see him lose again. Hopes dashed.

[72gmc]

My earlier comment notwithstanding (and not rescinded either) a femur break is bad news and I hope his recovery goes well. I was always anxious about the knee injuries I handled as a ski patroller until I had to deal with a femur fracture, and then a dislocated shoulder. Seemed a different playing field of pain.

[FlashUNC]

Originally Posted by 72gmc

My earlier comment notwithstanding (and not rescinded either) a femur break is bad news and I hope his recovery goes well. I was always anxious about the knee injuries I handled as a ski patroller until I had to deal with a femur fracture, and then a dislocated shoulder. Seemed a different playing field of pain.

Early reports are unspecified injuries to both elbows as well. Speaking from experience just one of those hurts like hell.