As you can see from a LOT of the discussion here (and elsewhere), it’s a mixed camp as to whether or not this was too much assistance at an early-ish stage in the race. Honestly, the biggest fault lies with that first commisaire for NOT acting at all (or directing the moto to stick with the rider and car).

Also, one…

The drafting effect starts squaring as you get closer to a cyclist that is blocking the wind for you, basically. He’s drafting the whole way behind that car and is getting a lot of help for the whole stretch. The further back he is, the more over the top wind resistance he faces (hence why they get RIGHT on the bumper…

Once the car started towing him past OTHER team cars and dropped riders, that’s where I agreed with the DQ. And one cycling writer on Twitter made a good point - no way does a single commisaire in the UCI WC kick out a rider on his own, without the jury and video, without egregious activity. It went on for almost 5km.…

This post deserves an update with this release:

Here ya go:

Based on the current defensive performances coming from the Giants, they’ve truly committed to not winning championships.

Bernal was nearly down the climb and had yielded about 2 seconds to Alaphilippe. Thomas and co. may have lost time to Alaphilippe, but Bernal took the tour today, no matter the stage ending point.

Ending the stage where they did probably kept Alaphilippe with a chance to still win tomorrow.

“Colombian Egan Bernal attacked on the climb and made it over the summit first, and he was in the process of being chased down by the rest of the general classification contenders when riders were told that the stage had ended.”

Bernal was holding steady against Alaphillippe with 5km left before the landslide, and…

I love pictures from the 1920's of Yellowstone. People pulled this shit with BEARS by the trash piles! The bears somehow only cared about the pile of trash and not the people.

Kruiswijk is my pick to win it, but Pinot looks like a man possessed after FDJ’s error in the crosswinds. If Movistar could have figured out what tactics are (and recognized Quintana’s arm injury for the energy sapper it likely is), they would have Landa or Valverde in the GC conversation as well. Also, Thomas or…

Bardet blowing up is far too kind. His performance is making Bargeuil look like a reasonably mature rider.

Alaphilippe is an absolutely amazing rider, but these first 2 weeks are either him hitting the greatest form of his life, or there are serious shenanigans afoot. He is doing this with one teammate who can sort of hang on the climbs. One. Alaphilippe has to defend yellow on every climb, on his own. That is just not…

Played pickup hockey at a rink for a short time and experienced the joy of used-to-be hockey players.

I’m amazed that it was only monkey noises.

Did you forget that the Knicks didn’t fold?

What’s even more nuts, is that TV deal for the PAC 12 includes a SHIT TON of coverage of the “normal” non-revenue sports - they actually are generating revenue there, which is pretty unique (and something totally unexpected).

Also, those random sports give a lot of high schoolers a chance at a scholarship for a college…

Men’s crew definitely doesn’t because it’s a club sport not sanctioned by the NCAA. And somehow the NCAA developing a formula where TV and other broadcast media rights are put into a pool that offers a stipend to all athletes won’t result in the schools paying a dime of their own money. If all we want are college…

The correct take is “Zion has nothing to gain in terms of his NBA career, and a lot to risk if he keeps playing. But it’s 100% his choice as to what to do.”

Also, the ban on high schoolers being eligible to be drafted is hot garbage and needs to die immediately. Especially with the D and G Leagues existing.

It’s a terrible example because a lot of big D-1 schools built up women’s rowing FAST so they could maintain Title IX compliance with their bloated football scholarship budget.