Contador’s maneuver allowed him to gain 39 seconds—enough to surpass Schleck for the overall lead, b

Today s primary unwritten rules-related chatter comes to us from the Continent, where defending champion Alberto Contador did the ungentlemanly thing in the Tour de France by pressing ahead after stage leader Andy Schleck 's chain popped off.
Contador's maneuver allowed him to gain 39 seconds—enough to surpass Schleck for the overall lead, but at considerable cost to his good P.R. Like baseball's unwritten rules, however, prominent names defend both sides of every argument.
There are subtleties here about which a bicycle-racing neophyte like myself has little idea, including the notion ( according to Vroomen , anyway) that Contador flight tickets direct from airline or travel agency s action might have itself been revenge for an earlier slight by Schleck.
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