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Mark Cavendish out of Tour de France, Peter Sagan disqualified

Cav pulls out due to injuries sustained in horror crash, while the world champion has been disqualified following a reconsidered verdict
by Simon_MacMichael
Tue, Jul 04, 2017 18:28
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Mark Cavendish is out of the Tour de France and World champion Peter Sagan has been thrown out after a crash at the end of stage 4.

Cavendish was forced to withdraw due to injuries sustained in the incident during the stage 4 finale, as he was sent crashing into the advertising hoardings. It was initially thought Cavendish may be able to continue, however x-rays have confirmed a broken shoulder which ends any hopes of surpassing the record number of stage wins at le Tour for the Manxman this year.

Sagan's fate was sealed after the race jury ruled he had caused Mark Cavendish to crash in the finale of today's Stage 4 in Vittel.

The Bora-Hansgrohe rider, winner of yesterday's Stage 2 and second to Arnaud Demare of FDJ today, was a red-hot favourite to win the green jersey for a record-equialling sixth time in a row.

Initially, the race jury imposed a 30-second time penalty on the Slovak and docked him 80 points in the points classification.

But after continuing to study video footage, they later announced:  "We've decided to disqualify Peter Sagan from the Tour de France 2017,"

Cavendish's close friend - and former sports director at HTC-Columbia and Omega Pharma-Quick Step - Rolf Aldag had earlier called for Sagan to be excluded from the race.

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Simon MacMichael

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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Jackson replied to madcarew | 7 years ago
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madcarew wrote:
cbrndc wrote:

Must say, probably the most deliberate aggressive move I've ever seen on the Tour.  On first viewing from the TV coverage it looks bad, but that's spinting, but the overhead stills show that there was no need to be that close to Cav looking at the space to Sagan's left.  Good call from the judges, if you are going to take someone out deliberately you may be DQ'd.

If that's the most aggressive move you've seen you might want to go back only a few years and watch McEwen, O'grady, Dean, Renshaw et al, and then back further to Abdujaparov. Cippo was a bit of a fan of an elbow, knee or trailing toga as well

Yeah, sounds like someone who started watching the Tour in about 2012.

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Huw Watkins replied to Jackson | 7 years ago
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Jackson wrote:
madcarew wrote:
cbrndc wrote:

Must say, probably the most deliberate aggressive move I've ever seen on the Tour.  On first viewing from the TV coverage it looks bad, but that's spinting, but the overhead stills show that there was no need to be that close to Cav looking at the space to Sagan's left.  Good call from the judges, if you are going to take someone out deliberately you may be DQ'd.

If that's the most aggressive move you've seen you might want to go back only a few years and watch McEwen, O'grady, Dean, Renshaw et al, and then back further to Abdujaparov. Cippo was a bit of a fan of an elbow, knee or trailing toga as well

Yeah, sounds like someone who started watching the Tour in about 2012.

 

Try the Kelly vs. Vanderaerden battles in the 80s

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Beecho replied to Huw Watkins | 7 years ago
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Huw Watkins wrote:
Jackson wrote:
madcarew wrote:
cbrndc wrote:

Must say, probably the most deliberate aggressive move I've ever seen on the Tour.  On first viewing from the TV coverage it looks bad, but that's spinting, but the overhead stills show that there was no need to be that close to Cav looking at the space to Sagan's left.  Good call from the judges, if you are going to take someone out deliberately you may be DQ'd.

If that's the most aggressive move you've seen you might want to go back only a few years and watch McEwen, O'grady, Dean, Renshaw et al, and then back further to Abdujaparov. Cippo was a bit of a fan of an elbow, knee or trailing toga as well

Yeah, sounds like someone who started watching the Tour in about 2012.

 

Try the Kelly vs. Vanderaerden battles in the 80s

You all know nothing. Me and my brother up Duke'd Avenue in the 70s was brutal.

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Edgeley replied to cbrndc | 7 years ago
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cbrndc wrote:

Must say, probably the most deliberate aggressive move I've ever seen on the Tour.  On first viewing from the TV coverage it looks bad, but that's spinting, but the overhead stills show that there was no need to be that close to Cav looking at the space to Sagan's left.  Good call from the judges, if you are going to take someone out deliberately you may be DQ'd.

The elbow comes out after Cavendish had started falling.  The DQ seems massively over the top, because it wasn't the elbow that caused the crash.

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kenyond | 7 years ago
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Cav was going down before sagans elbow came out in a fairness.
Bit of karma for cav though

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handlebarcam | 7 years ago
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It seems like a case of carelessness rather than maliciousness, on Sagan's part, and he wasn't the only one with his head down cutting across other people's lines. So disqualification could be seen as a bit on the harsh side. But better that than the sort of farce that Formula 1 has become.

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Jamminatrix | 7 years ago
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All those years of Cav causing others to crash and Sagan gets the full brunt of repercussions today. What a joke.

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fustuarium replied to Jamminatrix | 7 years ago
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Jamminatrix wrote:

All those years of Cav causing others to crash and Sagan gets the full brunt of repercussions today. What a joke.

Reminded me of Cav in Harrogate on Matthews. He apologised then and probably only spared ejection by not actually continuing.

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fukawitribe | 7 years ago
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So does he get the Most Agressive Rider award instead of Van Keirsbulck ?

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Goldfever4 replied to fukawitribe | 7 years ago
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fukawitribe wrote:

So does he get the Most Agressive Rider award instead of Van Keirsbulck ?

Ha! It seemed a boring stage so at least there is a talking point from the finale.

 

IMO, a DQ may end up being an over-reaction but Cavendish was entitled to follow Demare's wheel and Sagan's movement was aggressive in itself. The more times I see it the more intentional the elbow looks, so I guess a DQ makes sense as a plausible reprimand - but either way it was downright stupid.

It's not lost on me that Cavendish has been guilty of some pretty eggy moves in the finale before too, though.

Props to ASO for having the guts to boot out the world champion and star of the sport if they felt it was justified, often you see sporting bodies back away from decisions like this.

 

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Awavey replied to Goldfever4 | 7 years ago
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Goldfever4 wrote:

Props to ASO for having the guts to boot out the world champion and star of the sport if they felt it was justified, often you see sporting bodies back away from decisions like this.

 

exactly look at F1s Vettel "apology", it is the kind of decision everyone sits up and will take notice of in the peloton thats for sure..

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Simon_MacMichael replied to fukawitribe | 7 years ago
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fukawitribe wrote:

So does he get the Most Agressive Rider award instead of Van Keirsbulck ?

I actually burst out laughing, thanks for that 1

 

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