Yet again in the final round, Woods failed to accelerate.
Thinking there had been a false start, Robles failed to accelerate after the starter's pistol sounded.
But Wiggins failed to accelerate, and within a couple of hundred metres Froome could be seen listening to words coming through his earpiece before ending his solo effort and dropping back to rejoin the yellow jersey.
The man, Leroi Kenner, 45, and his brother, Chris Kenner, 36, both of Queens, attacked the officer, Emilio Maldonado, 29, after he honked at them near La Guardia Airport when they failed to accelerate after their traffic light turned green, the police said.
Many said they were frightened and almost had accidents when their vehicles failed to accelerate as expected when they tried to merge with traffic or cross a busy intersection.
The critics contend that school systems like New York's are more interested in letting schools fail, to accelerate the process of creating new schools, than in helping struggling schools, and the students in them, succeed.
Far more likely is serial brinkmanship punctuated by short-term cuts both of which bode ill for growth.The danger of mixed signalsAgainst this backdrop, it seems all too likely that America's growth will, once again, fail to accelerate.
