Today at the Tour - Cav Wins, Renshaw Tossed

Published July 15, 2010 at 7:58 p.m.

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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 against the rules of the sport.

According to Tour de France official Jean-Francois Pescheux, "Renshaw was declassified immediately but we have decided to also throw him off the race. We've only seen the pictures once, but his actions are plain for all to see. This is a bike race, not a gladiator's arena. This is cycling, not fighting. Everybody could have ended up on their backs."

What do you think? See how it all went down, in the following CycleTo video.

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