You're right, that was a deliberately incendiary comment.
I'm just very fucked off with how incredibly complacent British cycling seems to be about the crash. Even the usual voices of boardman and millar were silent. Of course you cannot make cycling safe, but you can be a good coach and stop an impressionable young athelete from potentially causing lasting damage to herself.
That's not actually what happened. He crashed on the descent before the Angliru, which they knew would be dangerous beforehand and he was protesting that. Not that anyone noticed.
There was a great km 0 from the Cycling Podcast on this during the Vuelta.
You're right, that was a deliberately incendiary comment.
I'm just very fucked off with how incredibly complacent British cycling seems to be about the crash. Even the usual voices of boardman and millar were silent. Of course you cannot make cycling safe, but you can be a good coach and stop an impressionable young athelete from potentially causing lasting damage to herself.