Tour de France: Renshaw hits out at Garmin-Transitions

Mark Renshaw is acting like a spoilt bratt. He is blaming others for the mistakes he made. He even admitted head butting was a bit much he even said he cut off Farrar and that was wrong, yet he has the audacity to blame others for what he did. Where is his accountability in all of this? He admits to it but believe he shouldn't be held accountable. My 5 year brother talks the same way.
Julian dean didn't cut across him he held his line or the stewards would have called it differently. Its like the Australians bowling an underarm cricket bowl and then ripping into the New Zealanders for critising him. He needs to shut his mouth and take it like a grown responsible Man and not act like a child.
As for Tyler Farrar just making up the numbers on the podium. He got interfered with and just still finished third one wheel off second after being 3 bike lengths down on two of the best srinters in the world With a broken wrist! Obviously he isn't as crap as people would suggest.
What a lead off man Julian Dean is though. Did you see how far back he brought Tyler up from. When you look at the whole situation HTC columbia nearly ruined it for Mark Cavendish
Renshaw only has himself to blame and shouldn't be blame others for his on short comings and mistakes!

Julian Dean was at least as guilty as Renshaw in terms of the first incident. Garmin's nicey-nice image off the bike probably saved him but its also the reason they don't win nearly as much as HTC. Good on Renshaw, he is right to be frustrated, though he wasn't as innocent as he is trying to make out.

The organisers stance is frustratingly inconsistent but this is bike racing, we can hardly expect fair, consistent governance can we!

During a sprint it is expected that sometimes will be some mild actions to gain room and a better position. head butting three times is excessive and for this action Renshaw should have been relagated to the end of the field. However Renshaw didn't stop after the head butting incident.

The video very clearly shows that Renshaw looked back with Farrar directly in his site line and he chose to move over directly into the path of Farrar. If this was a sprinter from any other team there may be an argument, but because both incidents that Renshaw was involved in were with the same team it is extremely logical that this was an act of revenge.

I postulate that Renshaw fully expected that he would be relegated to the end of the field and really didn't care as his goals were purely to launch Cavendish. I also feel that he was still hot when he looked back and decided in the heat of the moment to act and block Farrar. This second action is the action coupled with the first event that lead to the determination to expel Renshaw from the tour.

Farrar has now also left the tour. I feel that there was not much upside for Farrar to remain in the tour. If he won a sprint against Cavendish, there would always be an asterisk that Cavendish's lead out man was not there, he has a broken wrist. With the troubles between the HTC and Garmin teams there may fears of further retaliation and that it would be foolish continue under these circumstances.

Renshaw is now out there flapping his gums when he should be silent and waiting for the tour to pass. With each statement he looks more and more guilty. Coupled with the video evidence, public sentiment is causing respect for Renshaw to evaporate quickly.

My advice to Renshaw is to stop trying to justify his actions, as it does not matter anymore. Wait for time to pass and remember that for quite some time he will be watched very closely for similar actions or infractions.

What ifs are hard, but Farrar looked good before Renshaw cut him off, certainly good enough for podium on the stage.

And the video does make it look deliberate.

Someone at HTC needs to have a word with the riders, because they're coming across as complete arses when they open their mouths.

Compare;
http://www.slipstreamsports.com/2010/07/06/video-farrar-surviving-the-op...

I can't understand why he's feeling bitter. I mean, anyone would think he's been kicked out of the Tour de France or something.

We sent all the convicts to Australia for a reason. He should have stayed there.

The head bumping and cutting off your competition may be normal and work fine on a track with only a couple of other riders. The massive consequences of a mistake at that point in a road race between the barriers are exponetionally more dangerous and should not be tolerated by Le Tour or the other riders. Cavendish is talented enough to win without employing these shady tactics. My compliments to the riders with the guts to speak out and and The Tour for the DQ.

To right he shouldn't speak to anyone from Garmin.

Disgraceful some of the comments from Dean, Hunter and Vaughters.

Also true about Farrar just making up the numbers.

Well, perhaps he really didn't see Farrar on his left, Dean & Farrar had been on his right seconds earlier. If that's the case drifting a bit to his left would actually have been considerate. It depends on how far behind his field of vision he could see when he looked across.

But I do feel that DQ'ing him from the race is a bit harsh. I think I'd feel pretty bad if I was sitting on the railway platform while everyone else was still racing. And I think his headbutt (sounds worse than in reality, I call it defending his line) was justified.

According to race radio Farrar has quit on the road, so he's not making up the numbers any more then… if it's true

didn't see him my arse.

Farrar was "making up the numbers" on the podium yesterday wasn't he? Even after Renshaw tried to stop him… dearie me

I'm finding it interesting the reaction of Garmin riders to this, compared to say McEwan, they do seem to be taking it very personally. That said Renshaw does come across badly with the response.
Some blame has to be placed on Dean, he did come across Renshaw, surely you wouldn't lean to one side like that for any other reason than to impede Renshaw.
The whole incident does suggest that the commisaires need to be looked at.

Well up to now my opinion of Renshaw was certainly higher than my opinion of Cav. I don't know whether he has always been so petulant or if it's a result of hanging out with the so called "fastest man in the world" for too long. At some point something has to be done to try to prevent bunch sprints turning in to ice hockey matches. If he'd been kicked out for one of his 2 offences I'd agree the punishment was OTT but he definitely made 2 different infractions and got what was needed.

A bad apple. Not to mention childish (“I won’t speak with anyone from Garmin anymore.”). I'd imagine the Garmin lads are only crying their eyes out.