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Although I do think it's s fair decision I do think that the time loss would have made for more interesting riding. What with the ITT tomorrow and everything.
That said there are far too many incident with flippin motos where they influence results, and injure and even kill riders. Today was a balls up by the organisers and motos, it needs to be sorted out and stopped from happening ever.
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The motos were baulked by spectators. What were they meant to do, run them over?
The problem here is fucking idiot spectators, all desperate to get on tv, inserting themselves into the spectacle. Look at the photo someone published earlier today, half of those watching have their phones out taking photos and video. Why? You completely miss the moment if you do that.
The solution will have to be barriers for the final 4 or 5 kms of each climb. I'm sure ASO would've barriered more today, but that was probably low down the list once they had to shift everything else 6 kms down the road. But an incident like this was almost inevitable, as all those people who'd been camped up the 6 kms from Chalet Reynard were going to squeeze into the 2-3 kms before the finish.
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This.
There needs to be a 5k barriered section at the summits with Gendarmerie swatting the rockets before hand.
The motos need a restricted area around the riders, this was bound to happen again, see Stig Broeckx. Poor cunt was nailed twice in one season leaving him in a coma for fuck sake.
Motos, photo/camera minimum 3 metres away riders at all times, no passing. It's these cunts flying up the outside of the bunch that are doing the damage.
andyp
Merak
Je ne comprends pas.
You go to work, drink a beer, come home and Froome's forlornly running up a mountain, then riding a circus bike, then crying himself over the line....
Then gets put back in yellow.
Yates should be gutted-freak incidents are part and parcel imhop and there's been many other occasions where the disadvantaged party has been left to suck it or simply been injured and unable to continue. Hoogerland anyone? Ted King? You either play the magnanimous arbitrator for all people or none at all...