Paris Roubaix ‘24: Is My Race Over?

Like most of the peloton, Joshua Tarling (Ineos_Grenadiers) was having a tough race with ill timed flat tires and minor crashes (although some did leave the race by ambulance).  However, Tarling was seen holding on to his team car as it pulled him back up towards the peloton.  At about the half way point, the race referee pulled along side him to let him know he had been disqualified.  All that was left for the Brit was to soft pedal until he could get into is team car.  Phil Liggett made sure to point out that Tarling isn’t a cheat, usually, but he did get caught today.

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Paris Roubaix Femmes '22: Too Sticky

There is an expression in cycling, "Getting a sticky bottle."  It means that a cyclist and the team director in the car will hold onto a water bottle a little longer than necessary thus towing the cyclist along.  The UCI Road World Champion, Elisa Balsamo (Trek-Segafredo) was having a rough Paris Roubaix Femmes with both a crash and a poorly timed flat tire.  As she was working her way back up to the peloton she use a sticky bottle move to catch a bit of a rest.  Problem was, she was caught on camera and disqualified for holding onto her team car for way too long.  She was pulled out of the race so as not to provide any help to her teammates that were still in the race.  I'm used to seeing this move resulting in a time penalty in the big tours, but this is the first time I have seen a rider kicked out of the race.  I guess that is a difference of a stage race versus a one day race.

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Yorkshire 2019 - U23 Road Race: Arms Spread Wide

So it wasn't one of the leading five to take the victory in Harrogate after all.  It was Nils Eekhoff (Netherlands) had bridged across to the leaders and then had the legs to out sprint everyone.  As I am writing this, I am listening to the NBC Sports online podcast and learning that Eekhoff has been disqualified.  I still don't know why.  That means that each of the finishers have been moved up a spot.  Therefore, Samuele Battistella (Italy) wins the race, with Stefan Bissengger (Switzerland) takes Silver and the Yorkshire man, Thomas Pidcock (Great Britain) does make a medal run after all taking the Bronze.  That was a bit strange.

In the end it was determined that Eekhoff had spend to much time drafting off the back of his team car trying to rejoin the race after crashing out on course.

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Rio Olympics: Hammer Time

Another case of why you play the game.  World Champion in the Hammer Throw discipline was unable to make the qualifying distance in three tries today.  So Pawel Fajdek (Poland) will not be competing in the finale on Thursday.  Perhaps titling the painting after the pop star gone bust was a jinx.

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