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RE: Tour de France, Is it okay to throw out Sagan ?
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.