Awesome day in the Tour...
Actually, it was an absolute disgrace. Due to weather and road conditions, they had to stop the race. Fair enough. But then to take the leader's jersey off the shoulders of one rider and arbitrarily give it to another is disgusting. Pathetic. Three weeks of racing for nothing.
The proper decision would be to void the stage. Instead they decided to treat one point mid-way thru the race as the end, and base the overall standings on the times the riders had when they got there. Problem is, the strategy of the teams would have been completely different had they known that would be the announced finish ahead of time.
Now the appointed/illegitimate ''leader'' is almost sure to ''win'' as there isn't enough time left in the race for anyone else to catch up. Every one else ought to just quit now in protest of this horrible decision. The winner will be a sham.
The Tour de France is a private organization, with no apparent oversight. They never seem to miss a chance to reach a lousy decision - for example in recent years allowing cheaters like Mark Cavendish and his asshole lead-out team to routinely head-butt, shove, cut-off, and slam into other sprinters down the home stretch, yet evict Peter Sagan a couple of years ago for doing far less in not allowing them to do that to him.
Fuck Tour de France CEO Christian Prudhomme and - until he resigns - the Tour itself. Most (actually, all) the other major sports have done everything in their power to take every ounce of fun out of their games, apparently TdF has decided to follow their lead.
The only silver lining is it was a French rider who got screwed, the French must be livid.