Mark Renshaw of HTC-Columbia, has been given le-boot today after doing a little headbutting in the final stretch. Personally, I think this punishment is too harsh and complete bullshit. Garmin rider Julian Dean made an attempt to squeeze up the side and force Renshaw off his line, but he held it and gave a lil [ ... ] ...
Mark Renshaw got a bit cheeky today, butting heads (literally) with Julian Dean and then slamming the door on Tyler Farrar in the final dash to the finish line in Bourg-les-Valence. Renshaw clearly veered from his line to cut-off Farrar and was sent home from the Tour for his actions—not that it mattered though, as [ ... ] ...
In case you missed yesterday’s drama that got HTC-Columbia’s Mark Renshaw ejected form the tour for “attacking” Dean and moving off his line to block Farrar, here’s the video ...
Race director's rant over Mark Renshaw 'headbutts' was plain wrong ... report by Brenden Gallagher of The Telegraph ... 'It may be just a coincidence but Sebastien Chabal – known as The Animal in these parts – was the Tour's guest of honour on Thursday and it was a joy to see the look on his face when asked about the Mark Renshaw "headbutts" after Mark Cavendish's win. Child's play compared with what you see every week in French club rugby ... Officially of course the rugged French back-five
Controversial it was at the last 350 meters of stage 11 for Mark Renshaw. A win for Mark Cavendish and a loss for Mark Cavendish as his lead man gets disqualified for head butting Julian Dean and deviation from his line blocking Tyler Farrar ... It wasn't all about the head butting, more so, as Renshaw blocked Farrar forcing him very close into the barriers. The Garmin sprinter looked good and had a chance to give Cavendish a good fight to the line. Unfair or not, the call stands and Cavendish
In todays’ sprinters stage at the Tour, Mark Renshaw was removed from the race after headbutting Julian Dean. That lit up Twitter like the fight earlier in the race and Lance’s pedal-clipping, tire-rolling crash. We’ve been discussing it most of ...
{gallery}10tdf/renshaw{/gallery} ... By now, you've probably heard that Mark Renshaw, the lead-out man for HTC-Columbia sprinter Mark Cavendish, has been kicked out of the Tour de France for his actions in the closing kilometer of today's Stage 11 sprint into Bourg-les-Valence ... Cav got the win, but Renshaw paid the price. The jury ruled that his head-butt into Garmin-Transitions rider Julian Dean, and then a move to the left that damn near put Dean's teammate Tyler Farrar into the fence, are