'These comments just show you probably never experienced proper bike racing': Alessandro De Marchi defends teammate as sticky bottle controversy hits the Giro d'Italia after fans question stage winner Filippo Zana's team car help Giro
The two incidents showing, an admittedly pretty normal sight in professional bike racing — a rider, having dropped back to the team car, holding onto a bottle while the driver of said car accelerates, bringing them back to breakaway with minimal effort — the famous sticky bottle... ...
I dare say you could go back and find a similar incident from every single stage of the Giro so far however, naturally, when the rider involved goes on to win the stage, beating a very popular rider looking for their final Grand Tour stage win before retirement, the scrutiny is always going to be a touch more intense.
Some have suggested the punishment doesn't go far enough, arguing Zana should lose his stage win, the claim being that in the second video he was being dropped, although the languid nature of his dropping back to the team car, plus the fact that once back on the Italian champion stuck with Pinot's attacks on the remaining two climbs before beating him in the sprint, suggests this was hardly a rider pedalling squares...
I wouldn’t tweet this if it was just a case of going back to the car, otherwise I’d make 1000 of them each raceIf you do it because you've gone to your car to get water, that's fineAt this point Zana's teammate, and fellow breakaway extraordinaire, Alessandro De Marchi got involved..."How could he be dropped and then be one of the strongest with Pinot? I went back to the car intentionally.
Of course it helps but it’s not changing anything of the race guys! Not in this way and this moment of the race. This comments just show that you never experienced proper bike racing. And I’m saying this without criticism or offensively
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