Men's Road Cycling UCI Amgen Tour of California 2019

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Horrid last 5km for Tejay Van Garderen. His chains snapped, he took the wrong route, and got caught up in a crash while behind the peloton. All while wearing the yellow jersey. 1km to go

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Finish is in the beautiful Morro Bay today. Great place to go camping 

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Poor Sprint for Sagan, pretty sure I could’ve beat him today 

[heywoodu 15,172]

5 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Poor Sprint for Sagan, pretty sure I could’ve beat him today 

More of a usual sprint for Sagan this year  

 

The best sprinter in this year's ToC (looking at this year) won the stage. Also a very impressive win for Remi Cavagna the day before, and a great ride for young American Alex Hoehn.

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11 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

More of a usual sprint for Sagan this year  

 

The best sprinter in this year's ToC (looking at this year) won the stage. Also a very impressive win for Remi Cavagna the day before, and a great ride for young American Alex Hoehn.

Yeah, Alex Hohen has a good ride. I’ve been disappointed again this year by Lawson Cradock though. I really though that he was going to be next good American rider...

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43 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Yeah, Alex Hohen has a good ride. I’ve been disappointed again this year by Lawson Cradock though. I really though that he was going to be next good American rider...

Americans who are promising when they're young are generally disappointing in the end

 

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Hahaha they gave everyone the same time after Van Garderen's fall so he wouldn't lose time after all 

 

Which would be fine and, more importantly, according to the rules if it was within the last 3km, but it wasn't. 

Edited May 16, 2019 by heywoodu

[dcro 10,210]

32 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Hahaha they gave everyone the same time after Van Garderen's fall so he wouldn't lose time after all 

 

Which would be fine and, more importantly, according to the rules if it was within the last 3km, but it wasn't. 

 

Tom will not be happy to hear this.

[heywoodu 15,172]

24 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Tom will not be happy to hear this.

It's rather annoying to hear  (and yes, just to be sure: Dumoulin not getting the same time as the rest is 100% normal, it'd be stupid if he was saved the way Van Garderen has been saved)

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So Vaughters is expecting Van Garderen to either fall way, way behind on Mount Baldy or utterly annihilate everyone there and arrive 15 minutes before the rest?