Tour de France 2017

Gord Fraser makes this point:

"Here's my beef. Why can't the UCI find some ex pros to take the comms course and insist on one at all times on the race jury? I'm constantly frustrated by officials quoting a rule book w zero practical race experience. A former bunch sprinter on the panel for flat stages and climber for the mountains."

Which is totally on point: ex-pros should be on any judicial panel. Strange that Demare's movement, which more than a few ex-riders and commentators have blamed for the crash, doesn't seem to been taken into account at all.