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• Looks like Cavendish hit him first...

  

  Andrew Carter

  

  ​The Sagan Disqualification is Wrong, and Bad for the Tour

  Bicycling - byJoe Lindsey

  ​Absent malicious intent, sending a rider home for aggressive sprinting sets a bad precedent There’s a saying in legal circles that hard cases make bad law. I think of that maxim as I look at the aftermath of the wreckage of Stage 4 of the 2017 Tour de France, which transformed a sleepy and mostly …

• This is totally the wrong decision. Sagan shouldn't be disqualified.

  

  Andrew Carter

  

  Tour de France will miss Peter Sagan’s star power but safety must come first

  The Guardian

  Peter Sagan’s exclusion from the Tour de France for putting Mark Cavendish into the barriers close to the finish line at Vittel was the highest profile disqualification from the Tour de France since the entire Festina team were sent home in 1998 amidst one of the biggest doping scandals in the …

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  Andrew Carter

  

  Everything you ever wanted to know: Garmin’s new $1,500 Fenix Chronos Watch Series

  dcrainmaker.com - DC Rainmaker

  Well then, someone in Kansas is feeling ballsy today. Garmin has just announced three new Fenix units, starting from $900 and topping out at …

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  Andrew Carter

  

  

  Tour de France under huge pressure to ease security fears after chaotic week

  The Telegraph - Tom Cary,

  The presence of a gendarme brandishing an automatic rifle where the ‘Hors Course’ – the route used by support vehicles – met the race route 3km from the finish of yesterday’s 14th stage to Villars-Les-Dombes was just another example of an increased emphasis on security at the Tour de France in the …

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  Andrew Carter

  

  Why the Tour de France must put riders before spectators

  The Guardian

  Chris Froome’s ungainly and desperate attempt to sprint up Mont Ventoux in his cleated cycling shoes is not, sadly, the event for which Bastille Day 2016 will be remembered in France. But it is likely to occupy a permanent place in the history of the world’s greatest bike race, and its consequences …

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  Andrew Carter

  

  How the humble bicycle is making a comeback in US cities

  bbc.co.uk - BBC News

  As part of a series on the State of America, the BBC is profiling small businesses that have stories to tell about the way they work, and which say something about a wider national trend. Towards the end of the 19th Century America was in the grip of cycling craze. Women in particular embraced the …