Crash for Matt White

Quoted post said:

Originally posted by steve
ahh [censored]! 🙁

My heart goes out to him. All that hard work!!

Yeah! This same thing happened to Bob Rolle when he was with 7-11. He was replaced before the race. This is the same with Matt White's team, his replacement arriving on very short notice. So I suppose from a team perspective, it's better to happen now than a few stages down the road. But that doesn't make Matt feel much better I suppose.

Doesn't really feel like a good start to the tour for the Aussies:
White crashes out before the start
Rogers crashes during prologue
McGee feeling like [censored] and riding poorly
Gates crashes and misses the cut
O'Grady crashes 4km from end of Stage 1
Time for a change of luck?

Quoted post said:

Originally posted by gntlmn
Yeah! This same thing happened to Bob Rolle when he was with 7-11. He was replaced before the race. This is the same with Matt White's team, his replacement arriving on very short notice. So I suppose from a team perspective, it's better to happen now than a few stages down the road. But that doesn't make Matt feel much better I suppose.

A high speed dash across Belgium for Peter Farazijn, apparently.

he has been working hard to ride the tdf! so close but now so far!!!

Yea it's a shame to work so hard to get to this race and then crash during warm-up, hope he will be here next year.