Tour de France Stage 5 recap: What the hell was that? (Brought to you by Haiku)
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WOAH BREAKING NEWS: Racing eventually happened Wednesday and wunderkind Wout van Aert won. But first, we just heard that Julian Alaphilippe is no longer in the yellow jersey after being docked 20 seconds by race commissaires because he took a water bottle from a staff member with 17 kilometers left in the race. Rules state that no feeding can take place within the last 20k.
This raises several important questions: 1) Why is this a rule? 2) 20 seconds, really? 3) Was this the staff member's screw-up for even offering a bottle so close to the finish line in the first place? 4) Seriously Julian, you couldn't wait 20 minutes when the stage would be over? And 5) Why is this sport like this?