Thought we had a second consecutive fun stage on Corsica - which barring the Greenedge bus incident and the almost inevitable first stage crash has been a nice Tour original tour start.
The talk of narrow roads causing massive amounts of crashes appears unwarranted, decent stage design if a little on the short side (though I am not really convinced by the longer stages testing endurance argument - the riders make the race imo).
Regarding the whole Sagan 'hate' thing - you just need to look at the most pop rider comp. to understand that he is pretty well liked in general. Personally I try not to 'hate' any rider, I find such emotion to be pretty juvenile - each rider is unique. Voeckler, Cavendish, the black and blue bots, RadioShack, the Garmin boys, Gilbert, the Gorilla, Sagan, Greenedge ...
Actually regarding Greenedge I think they are really well set up for anything flat or hilly in terms of chasing down and setting up sprint trains. They are always there and thereabouts in this sort of stage. They lack that top out and out flat sprint (Goss just isn't there), but Gerrans, Albasini, Impey are all good. I was impressed by Simon Clarke's KoM sprinting also.
So certainly a nice three days with some nice first time winners (First Argos, Bakelants and Greenedge wins).
Smowz wrote:
Actually regarding Greenedge I think they are really well set up for anything flat or hilly in terms of chasing down and setting up sprint trains. They are always there and thereabouts in this sort of stage. They lack that top out and out flat sprint (Goss just isn't there), but Gerrans, Albasini, Impey are all good. I was impressed by Simon Clarke's KoM sprinting also.
So certainly a nice three days with some nice first time winners (First Argos, Bakelants and Greenedge wins).
Given how Goss was going a few years back you might have thought he'd be in the Cavendish, Greipel, Kittle bracket by now but he just seems to be going bakwards since then.
A couple of sources have suggested a bit of an attitude problem or lack of application. Difficult to know but certainly a shame he hasn't become what they might have hoped.
