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Ok I said motos but I meant organisation as well, barriers, street furniture, uncontrolled spectators. It shouldn't be influencing race results, yes races can have incidents, but the organisation of that race shouldn't be causing it.
And yes the change in the finish line affected it, but still a clusterfuck that I'm sure Prudhomme is getting plenty shouty over to his subordinates.
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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.