Smack Down

For those that might be following the coverage from the Tour of Oman, it seems the smack down was put on everyone's favourite team....Team Sky on the previous stage.

Now as a bit of a re-cap, Team Sky had the yellow jersey on the shoulders of Edvald Boasson Hagen and basically during the stage riding like a bunch of pr!cks using only half width and putting the peleton in the gutter through the feed zone.

Now there are some un-written rules in cycling, the first is you never attack through a feed zone. Now a feed zone is a dangerous enough place in the first instance, but when you have riders attacking or riding the bunch in the gutter at 65+kph it's just lethal.

The second un-written rule is you don't attack when the yellow jersey takes a nature break, well after Team Sky's previous efforts the other teams returned the favour by turning the screw when Boasson Hagen stopped for a bit of relief.

Road racing in the bigger races is about give and take, if you let someone into the echelon in the x-winds you will have the favour returned some day when you need it by them letting you in or maybe a helping hand on the climb when you're struggling.
The flip side is, if "cut" riders up and don't give an inch when you can and that gets remembered as well and will come back and bite you in the a$$ just like Team Sky