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07-15-2010, 11:53 AM
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Rennshaw kicked out of tour
Don't watch video if you don't want to know today's finish!
Zoinks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoZkNbxojKw Details http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/rens...tour-de-france 
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07-15-2010, 12:01 PM
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Wow ... that was bad. I cannot say whether he should have been thrown out or not, but I thought it was dirty.
Cav's finished looked great; too bad people will question whether he truly have won considering how early he took to the sprint.
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07-15-2010, 12:08 PM
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Should the title of this thread have spoiler or some sort of different heading for those who are DVRing?
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07-15-2010, 12:10 PM
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Renshaw was really in the wrong for blocking Farrar. He let Cav go, looked left, saw the Garmin rider and then moved further left to block him into the barriers. The HTC team is not well liked by the other sprinters. Didn't the peloton do a starting line boycott of Cav after he took down the sprinters earlier this year?
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07-15-2010, 12:35 PM
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The HTC team is not well liked because they tend to beat other people...
Was it wrong? sure. Was it worse than lots of other things that get people a penalty but not kicked? yep. Farrar simply cant beat Cav. I like him. Great person and he'll likely develope more, but I have ZERO respect for the team after Vaughters Bitched up and chased down Hincapie (past tour) and then couldn't manage to stand up and admit it... That's the definition of bitch to me... Garmin's biggest effort was simply to keep someone else from winning when they had no chance of beneft. Renshaw's effort was at least defending something other than a small di*#...
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07-15-2010, 12:40 PM
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[SPOILER ALERT]
So Garmin is a bitch for playing within the rules and chasing down a breakaway, and Renshaw is OK for headbutting a Garmin rider and then funneling Farrar into the barrier. Nice logic...... Why don't we just say the two teams dislike each other, will screw with each other and if one is caught breaking the rules, then they deserved to be kicked out. Last edited by DukeHorn; 07-15-2010 at 12:42 PM.
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07-15-2010, 12:45 PM
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He's a rolling definition of butthead. I think websters needs to be updated to add Rennshaw as a synonym.
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#10
07-15-2010, 12:48 PM
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Garmin is perhaps the least interesting team in the peloton and Farrar couldn't have caught Cav with a Kawasaki.
But Renshaw wasn't even sly, he should get bounced just for obviousness.
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#11
07-15-2010, 01:12 PM
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Robbie McEwen was famous for head-butting in a sprint a few years ago- looks like Renshaw has been taking lesson! If I remember correctly though, McEwen was not tossed from the race, only relegated to last spot on the day. That's probably what should have happened to Renshaw. He didn't crash anyone and sprinting at the tour is often full of pushing and shoving- it's what these guys are used to.
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07-15-2010, 01:21 PM
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Quote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPybqwcFSbc Not sure that it was as bad.
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07-15-2010, 01:24 PM
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The Garmin riders were interviewed immediately after the sprint (they were still panting on camera). They were both really cool about it considering. Neither were calling names or even bitching about foul play.
If it happened to me or one of my teammates and it was still 2 minutes after the finish I would still be in fight or flight mode and it would take everything that I have not to get in someones face. Kudos to Garmin for keeping cool!
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#15
07-15-2010, 01:27 PM
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Quote:
They should have a yellow card, and then two gets you booted. Last edited by BillG; 07-15-2010 at 01:32 PM.
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