the funniest way that cyclists cheat

the funniest way that cyclists cheat everyone agrees in sports is bad, but also sometimes at like the lowest, lowest levels, a sort of fudging a rule, it can be pretty funny. and the tour de france and cycling more broadly has one of my favorite examples of this, the sticky bottle. and the sticky bottle is a technique where a rider who is, to, retrieving a bottle or a gel or whatever from their team car, just a little bit longer than they need to, gets a nice boost, gives the legs a break. it's generally accepted not too obvious about this, you don't hold on too long, no one really bats an eye because everyone does it. sometimes they take it a little too far. like last year in the tour de france, lenny martinez, mountains jersey, was docked points because he took three sticky bottles in very quick succession to climb a mountain. you can't do that. what makes it worse is that he was not just like a random guy getting he won the tour de france the year earlier. he was a star rider. everyone does it, but sometimes you and honestly, it's really funny. i... wacky races, man. they're doing crazy stuff here. watch the tour de france.