British Cyclist Mark Cavendish Body Slams into Competitors

i chose D2 wrote:

trollism wrote:

He got disqualified. What you whining about?

They announced his relegation 2 seconds after I posted. Still sucks for the American dude, even though he probably wouldn't have been able to hold all those guys off anyway.

Probably?

No probably about it. He finished exactly where he would have finished had he not been impeded. It was a fair relegation, everybody knew it was going to happen.

despicable you wrote:

In other words,

ACCIDENTS HAPPEN.

Accidents don't happen when you stare at someone and plow into them.

Despisable You wrote:

despicable you wrote:

In other words,

ACCIDENTS HAPPEN.

Accidents don't happen when you stare at someone and plow into them.

Re-read what I wrote. The point I made isn't complex - I'm sure you can understand.

trollism wrote:

PCW wrote:

Viviani pinned the blame on the South Korean, in spite of the fact that he was involved in the resulting crash. That is not the place on the track to overlap wheels, and Park should have known better as Cav's intent was pretty clear.

Viviani knew exactly what happened, because he was on the attack and Cav was covering it. The Korean should have been on Cav's wheel, not below and overlapping.

Wrong. Cav intentionally road out. Watched the Korean stay on line, the watched him as he intentionally smacked his rear wheel into the Korean's front wheel. That is a guaranteed way to bring some one down while keeping yourself up. It's your body mass and rigid part of the frames versus the front wheel where no little support exists.

Mark Cavendish should have been DQ'd. He is now on my most disliked list. Scum.

Cavendish has a history of making riders eat sh*t. The amazing thing is he rarely comes off the bike himself.

despicable you wrote:

Despisable You wrote:

Accidents don't happen when you stare at someone and plow into them.

Re-read what I wrote. The point I made isn't complex - I'm sure you can understand.

You can't understand what you wrote. You made no point at all.

NOP has a cycling team?

jdfkerg wrote:

Just ban all British cyclists:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/vogel-questions-great-britains-progress-from-cannon-fodder-to-olympic-champions/

It does make you wonder.

I'm a Brit, and I've watched cycling avidly for 30+ years. Brits did nothing in road races prior to 2010, and now you have Cav on 30-odd TdF stage wins, and Brits more often than not win the whole thing.

Sky would say marginal gains (which sort of suggests every other cycling team doesn't know what they are doing). Either the playing field is more level now than in the post-Armstrong era, or we are looking at Doping 2.0, which means 'tuning' your riders to a level where they can get through tests ok (when they aren't dodging them).

Despisable You wrote:

despicable you wrote:

Re-read what I wrote. The point I made isn't complex - I'm sure you can understand.

You can't understand what you wrote. You made no point at all.

The point was, why would Cavendish risk a fall himself to initiate some sort of deliberate domino effect to take out a couple of big rivals?

Answer, he didn't because he simply MADE A MISTAKE.

Did he f*** up? Absolutely.

Was it deliberate? No, of course not.

Should he have been disqualified? I don't know, I no little about the specifics of the rules.

despicable you wrote:

Despisable You wrote:

You can't understand what you wrote. You made no point at all.

The point was, why would Cavendish risk a fall himself to initiate some sort of deliberate domino effect to take out a couple of big rivals?

Answer, he didn't because he simply MADE A MISTAKE.

Did he f*** up? Absolutely.

Was it deliberate? No, of course not.

Should he have been disqualified? I don't know, I no little about the specifics of the rules.

You fail to understand physics. If you want to force someone to fall you use the rigid part of your bike where your mass is --the rear wheel-- and smack front wheel of the bike --no mass and has a wheel that turns easily -- you want to knock down.

Cavendish is a typical brit cheater. The doper Cavendish should be put in prison for assault and theft. The brits have proven that they are liars and thieves and every brit should be permanently banned.

despicable you wrote:

OK then,

So a rider in the medal positions deliberately "slams" into an also-ran in a move that's at least as likely to take him down as anyone else.

And this makes sense to you?

Right.....

You clearly don't ride bikes if you think that there was any risk of Cavendish going down when he body slammed Park. I'm seeing this as a popular line of thinking from the Brits on Reddit. Cavendish used the rear wheel portion of his bike and body to do the body slam into Parks front wheel. As anyone that races a bike knows, Cavendish will never go down in that situation because the rear wheel is rigid and can't turn whereas contacting someone's front wheel easily torques their handlebars and causes a fall.

Also, Cavendish used his momentum coming down the track to body slam Park, which means that Park would be sliding downwards away and behind Cavendish. Another factor why Cavendish would never crash.

Cavendish has a history of maliciously crashing out other riders in sprints like in the Tour de France and the Tour de Suisse.

It was malicious and intentional to anyone non British and not bribed by British Cycling.

Roid Rage Cavendish needs to be put in prison.

The state sponsored Brit doping has really gotten out of hand. It is time for a total banishment for all Brits.

the slimy limeys

There's some more track cycling on now.

Maybe you'll learn a bit more the second time you watch it, you got a bit excited after watching it for the first time.

roid rage cavendish wrote:

Roid Rage Cavendish needs to be put in prison.

The state sponsored Brit doping has really gotten out of hand. It is time for a total banishment for all Brits.

So true, been watching the track cycling when the t&f hasn't been on and man either the Brits have some really good bikes or there is some corruption going on. The big question to answer is British cycling dirtier then Russian athletics?

I was so happy when Cavendish fell in the TdF right in front of his mom, after all the hype Brits gave that dirty bodychecking rider.

Despisable You wrote:

despicable you wrote:

In other words,

ACCIDENTS HAPPEN.

Accidents don't happen when you stare at someone and plow into them.

Actually, an accident is pretty much guaranteed to happen when you stare at someone and plow into them, no?