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oh team M talk us through this spr losing to joining Milan today I’m just happy I’m still alive but one with one to go uh so two Riders shoulder to shoulder and uh one was boxed out we were almost in uh yeah over the barriers and then I thought uh will be fine start my Sprint with yeah with uh the high speed Milan uh with a big gear uh for moment I to uh a c win but then uh uh was a bit too far what what feeling are you standing with now ah a bit disappointed of course was possible to win was just really really hectic and uh a bit too dangerous definitely but okay um yeah a sport and uh part of my job thank you Tim than you br to be in the losing end of all of that isn’t it and have to be in the middle of all the RG barg and not get the stage Victory but it ties back into what we were saying exactly and that is the physicality of a Sprint and when does it go from being common or guarden sprinting to being being dangerous and is that Robbie simply a question of which end of the RG bar do you find yourself on which end of the stick you get or which end of the pineapple but um you know for Tim he said it was dangerous and he nearly went over the barriers but he also came from such a long way back which says he was just he was too far back where more of that stuff happens because everybody’s battling to try and get to the front and they’re not waiting to go oh Tim M after you he has to battle just like the others and he he came off second best at one point which compromised his entire finish and sure he’s unhappy about it but he’ll also realize I was just simply too far back and that’s what you get I think with Tim as well he’s not a sprinter that likes the arar if you look at KY he doesn’t mind getting stuck in he likes finding his way in elbow in a few people I think with Malia he likes his space he likes to be able to move he likes to see which Direction’s Best and any chance he got like today even if it’s early he’ll always start his Sprint like he did yesterday and I think that’s the way that he likes it and if it isn’t like that often like we did yesterday he was Ill position quite far back going into the Finish luckily he had the legs he was similar today he wasn’t too far back from what he was yesterday but the speed was so much higher and the Riders In Front had just a better running than he did so he tried exactly the same as yesterday but just didn’t have the legs to do so I just don’t think he likes to get involved in the arji he just likes as you said he wants a lane to be a Sprint and he doesn’t like to fight to get in that lane beforeand pick a gap go through it and go we’ve got to give full respect to anyone’s opinion who is in the thick of all of that as you two know only too well he called it as is dangerous you’re all very used to calling bike races from the objectivity that that distance that we keep how do you call it how do you see it dangerous not dangerous all of you I I mean Cy is dangerous from start to finish as far as I’m concerned I’ve said it so many times before although there’s a lot of crashes in bike RAC and we saw them when we were in theend and we see them a lot now I was always surprised when I was there that there weren’t more you’re always really close to an overlap of wheels and somebody coming off of course we saw crashes today thankfully not in the Sprint finish we did see crashes earlier on in the stage so in terms of the finale itself you know that is just sprinting it’s are the these are the early crashes that we are watching now so the worst off here was B and gamar we didn’t see exactly what happened but we can guess it was so slippery down this descent down towards the coast only needs one Rider to lose their front wheel on a corner like the one that they’re on and it’s just like ballards coming down behind so Gaya taking a big chunk out of his right thigh or hip and onto his spare bike and I think we got the sense afterwards with his gesticulations uh that the tires were perhaps too hard on the spare bike which is why he lost grip and end up crashing a second successive time in the space of just a few minutes and you know that unfortunately was the end of the Jalia for a former stage winner so really unfortunate for him just one of those things just bad luck Adam really isn’t it yeah I mean there’s nothing he can do about I think the second incident maybe if the tires were too hard you can’t always Point blame an mechanic either and say it was too hard the roads as slippery as they were like before the crash beforehand it was just so wet out there and he was trying to catch up by that point so pushing a little bit more with that urge to get back on as quick as possible but it’s it’s part of bike racing sometimes it’s a horrible part of bike racing then
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Just horrible to see Bini leave Giro this time again. I hope it doesn't affect his morale. Cycling is sometimes cruel.
It‘s not the tires. It‘s simply called overbreaking. Discbrakes are not made for roadbikes. Diskbrakes are to powerful for this types of tires.
Diskbreaks are deadly and cause a lot of crashes in road races