The Tour this year has been pretty average for Australian’s involved in the race. Cadel got the yellow jersey and then lost it. Rogers has been a good help to Cavendish, but hasn’t shown in the mountains. Lancaster has been a solid team mate once more. McEwen, well lets say he could give Chuck Norris a run for his money.
And that leaves Renshaw. In which is a good way to start a war with the UCI. Hard to defend a case that offers no counter arguments, the only thing is to take the penalty and move on.
Except its not.
The UCI is a bit long in the tooth to be dictating the rules of the road, where there are unsure rules to begin with :: Rules of the Group Sprint :: It is put nicely that the rules of a group sprint are difficult to enforce, and instead of:
Riders shall be strictly forbidden to deviate from the lane they selected when launching into the sprint and, in so doing, endangering others.
The rules should say:
The first rule of Sprint club, is that you don’t talk about Sprint Club.
