The hate is towards the behaviour not a team or rider.gravity wrote:I dont know why so much hate towards Movistar/Valverde. I guess every teams has been at the both end of the situation, and each time everyone uses the same excuse. Whats new here. The haters here will hate on Valverde regardless what Movi/Valverde do.
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Same thing will happen if jumbo/lotto/Ef did the same.. I would hazard a bigger storm if ineos did it.
This team sees their rival team crash badly with 100kms to go and only 1 more stage to go after that (flat) day.. Goes and attacks.. Uci/race officials wasn't happy with them.. And towed the peleton back.
Then this team claims it was always their plan and they didn't know how bad the crash was. Claims they were all at the front.
Plenty of evidence emerge that they were not in front.. Saw the crash and decided to attack.
Offer half assed apology.
Wouldn't be at all be surprised if race officials threatened to neutralise the stage until peleton was back together.. If they didn't tow them back.. Which was the less disruptive of the two actions.
Cycling as a sport is still got an aspect ruthless underhanded tactics isn't tolerated. I like that about pro racing. Otherwise where does it end?
Leader has pee break.. Every other GC teams attacks?
Do we want 150 urine soaked riders at the finish everyday?
Sacrifice one rider in your team to shunt the gc leader into a ditch?
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