Tour de France, Is it okay to throw out Sagan ?
Why did Sagan get sent home
Sagan as he looked before the elimination.
When I saw the pictures I did not see how Sagan did something terrible, Cavendish did not have to try and push through, but he really pressed his luck, which he did not have.
Okay Sagan did put up his elbow, but Cavendish was already on the crashing trajectory, so his elbow didn't do it.
No hard feelings
After the stage Sagan was even excusing himself to Cavendish, not as an admittance of guilt, more to express that he was sorry for the crash Cavendish had, and Cavendish was not angry with Sagan, not in public at least.
UCI gets involved
somehow the UCI decided to take action here, and on the shaky ground of a lot of emotions right after the crash they eliminated Sagan, perhaps they should have waited at least a bit more before springing to such a drastic measure.
It is a almost unheard of, that a racer gets eliminated like this, I don't think I have ever heard of anybody else getting eliminated like this in the Tour.
There have been some racers eliminated under suspicion of doping.
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I am still undecided on this. The elbow did come out which was unsportsmanlike conduct. And Sagan did squeeze him toward the barrier but at that point Cavendish should have backed off rather than try to squeeze through. It is a tough choice and still don't know if it was the correct one. I'm on the fence.
But sending him home is a little harsh ?
Yeah perhaps a large time penalty would have sufficed.
That would be the dumbest punishment for a sprinter, sprinters do not care about the time, the point for the green jersey is probably a more fitting punishment, but I still do not see why he had to be punished, I still can't quiet see what he did wrong.
Well that is initially what he got, a 30 second time penalty and was relegated to 115th place.
Then they deemed that not harsh enough because he endangered other riders. Whatever the case he did elbow him and in my book that is very unsportsmanlike and as it is a non contact sport then I guess he got what he deserved.
He did not elbow Cavendish, he actually never hit Cavendish with his elbow (only looks like that from some angles).
No but he obviously did it on purpose. If I pretended to throw an elbow at someone they are obviously going to flinch. You simply can't do things like that in a non contact sport.
Also if you get pushed toward the edge by another rider, you might use the elbow for balance ?
Also Cavendish didn't have to try to get through, so in some sense Cavendish pushed himself into the situation where he crashed.