Tejay van Garderen Says Sorry

by Jen See on Feb 10, 2011 3:10 PM EST in News

There was a biggy pile-up in today's final stage of the Mallorca Challenge. Tejay van Garderen of HTC-Highroad took responsibility:

I was the guy who crashed first and caused a big crash today. Sorry guys. 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®

Pretty class, this Tejay. No word on whether he's changed his mind about Forum People.

Murilo Fischer of Garmin-Cervélo won the stage ahead of Oscar Freire. Jonathan Vaughters could not resist the obvious Brazilian joke, commenting that Fischer had "waxed" the competition.

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I forget, did you and Chris ask JV "the question"?

Did you see JV’s reply to another twitter, the one about the waxing down under?

The skills really do go away if not practiced, and I don't mean to brag but I was getting very mediocre. - Tejay Van Garderen

by flying dog on Feb 10, 2011 3:31 PM EST reply actions

Ha ha, no we didn't

Maybe we should have ;)

by Jen See on Feb 10, 2011 3:35 PM EST up reply actions

Just because you’re the first guy to go down doesn’t mean you caused the crash.

but i’ll defer to the rider in this case if he says he in fact caused it.

by karmaportrait on Feb 10, 2011 7:31 PM EST reply actions

True fact.

It’s kinda sweet that he apologized though.

by Jen See on Feb 10, 2011 7:58 PM EST up reply actions

I don't see the need to apologize really...shit happens.

Its nice and all but its not like riders will roast him on an open fire otherwise nobody would go near Fat Schleck in the peloton.

by Vlaanderen90 on Feb 10, 2011 10:36 PM EST up reply actions

Oh sure

I don’t expect the dudes to be doing this all the time. It was just kinda… charming, I guess, that he did it this time.

by Jen See on Feb 11, 2011 11:14 AM EST up reply actions

Maybe spurred on by realisation that he actually was wrong

Erik Dekker commented that “someone” came underneath in a corner. Usually, that’s not done.
(Of course I have no idea what really happened and I’m sure there was no intention to take others down.)

by tedvdw on Feb 11, 2011 11:18 AM EST up reply actions