Twisted Spoke: Contador takes yellow, re-interprets unwritten rule.
“One of the charms of professional cycling it the old school gentlemen’s agreements. A code of honor that says you don’t take advantage of someone’s slipped chain or full bladder. It’s the opposite of the American phrase, winning ugly. It’s a sport with leftover chivalry, a bygone idea that there’s a correct and beautiful way to win.” And that’s one of the reasons I follow the sport. Lose the chivalry, you lose me. Period. Offhand thought ... imagine the spluttering, incoherent outrage if Armstrong had done this.
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Right.
Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 07/19/10 at 06:38 PM
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... or if Contador had done it to Armstrong.