SPOILER - Tour De France history avoided for politics in Paris?
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IF... all he had could have indeed beaten van Aert anyway.
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You think there is no politics in the international sport of cycling? Such innocence. It's endearing.
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Pretty sad existence.
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Whether or not cycling is influenced by politics is a separate topic from whether or not Cav intentionally didn't win the stage.
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I hate it when words lose their obvious meaning. "Canceled" meaning having to withstand a little disagreement being one of the more annoying examples. I like it when people are cancelled and get to go on all the major news networks and write an invited op-ed about it.
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Yes, clearly, you are a victim here.
Or a hero of truth.
Or whatever your fantasy is here.
Tell you what, give us one single plausible coherent reason, political or otherwise, why Cavendish would have thrown it, and maybe you'd get a listen.
And "politics, duh" is actually not a coherent answer.
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...and it must take into consideration what we know of Cav's character as a sportsman. Does he have the personality that would be willing to back away from winning one more time on the Champs (considered the pinnacle win for sprinters), especially with such a monumentous accomplishment attached to it?
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...and it must take into consideration what we know of Cav's character as a sportsman. Does he have the personality that would be willing to back away from winning one more time on the Champs (considered the pinnacle win for sprinters), especially with such a monumentous accomplishment attached to it?
Obviously, he did it for the lulz.
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...and it must take into consideration what we know of Cav's character as a sportsman. Does he have the personality that would be willing to back away from winning one more time on the Champs (considered the pinnacle win for sprinters), especially with such a monumentous accomplishment attached to it?
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Of course! That makes a lot more sense than the factors that we can clearly witness on video, and have been discussed in detail by riders who have actually been there and done that. You must be the biggest Cav fan ever to believe that he would only lose if he did so intentionally.
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If you apply Occam’s razor then you can easily explain why Cav lost the sprint without including politics and under-the-table money. That’s not to say your theory is definitely wrong. It’s just unlikely to be true.