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Re: 2016 Tour de France STAGE 21 Discussion Thread......*spoilers* Champs Elysees [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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devashish_paul wrote:
RandMart wrote:
Alvin Tostig wrote:
Alvin Tostig wrote:
- All nine riders from Sky will cross the finish line together, line abreast, with their arms across each other's shoulders.




Y'know they lost a minute and a half dropping to the back like that?

Lucky they had time to spare

Technically since they were with the bunch at the 3000m to go line, they could dog it all they wanted and get the same time. Froome should have gotten off his bike and ran down the cobblestones in his carbon shoes for the photo opp!

The 3k rule only covers time gaps caused by incidents, not time gaps that occur because you couldn't (or didn't) keep up. It's the reason why the top GC guys tend to finish in the top 25 even on sprint stages as they don't want to lose even a second or two to their rivals

Some of the sprinters and sprint teams have been saying that the 3k mark should be the point at which final timings are taken so that the GC teams aren't fighting for road space and position with the sprint trains in the final run in, and that the finish line should just determine placings,but that's not the rule yet.
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