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The stage wasn't even actually really disputed - the organiser wanted to try a stage without oreillettes, i.e. suppress the straight communication link between the team manager and the riders, which results in slightly more boring races, less adventurous riders...

14 of the team managers didn't want to lose their authority, and ordered their riders not to contest much of the stage (until the final sprint)?

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 02:19:31 PM EST
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Yes, and the riders in these teams cursed those from the remaining teams who joined an escape attempt. In the end, however, the sprinter teams began to work, and that was it for the escape (caught just after the 2km gate).

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 02:57:15 PM EST
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