Martijn wrote:
BDoughtie wrote:
Because of the race dynamics, though he's not really the "captain" at this point for Garmin. He's just another rider now, and the goal changed from getting him top GC spot to now stage hunting. Now of course I think because of his lack of actual results in his past, he doesn't necessarily garner the respect of say if this happened to an LA or Cadel Evans. You bet someone would drop back for a rider because of their history, respect.
There is something going on within this team, I'm not sure what though. I'm Dutch and follow the Tour closely. Yesterday evening on the Dutch tv show that reviews that days stage they interviewed two of his Dutch teammates, Sebastian Langeveld and Tom Jelte Slagter. There was no sign of compassion whatsoever, nothing. They were just talking very casually about the fact that 'nothing could be done about it', were not really interested. As if they totally didn't care for their teammate.
It seems to me that it was not an option not to have at least one teammate with Talansky, yet they decided to abandon him and started pushing at the front. I don't know...very, very weird. And if they figured Talansky would abandon the race anyway, why talking to him for minutes trying to get him on his bike again? I hardly believe it is because - as the team stated - they can decide after the stage in peace and quietness if Talansky will abandon the race rather then making that decision on a mountain.
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