Tour de France 2017

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Jimmy_Fingers in reply to @Brommers

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.

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Brommers in reply to @Jimmy_Fingers

I agree. It's utterly bizarre that you have people judging the actions of people engaged in a sport when they've never taken part in that sport themselves, at least not at any serious level. Even F1 now has one ex-driver steward at every race to inject a bit of realism into the stewards' decisions, and I'd say that's worked pretty well.

Obviously the fact I've never been in a professional sprint finish doesn't affect my ability to be absolutely spot on about the rights and wrongs of the situation though.

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dancing james in reply to @Brommers

What they really need is a panel of armchair fixie skidders to adjudicate.

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