Recent content by EliseeReclus

Just from memory both Ciccone and Ayuso have crashed in this giro, Pedersen crashed and abandoned the Tour last year, van Aert very infamously crashed out of the Vuelta last year and injured himself very badly - this is mostly missing so much that it's not valuable.

I do sometimes look at Bora's roster and question the team building aspect of it - they have a lot of very good mountain domestiques (Hindley, Pellizzari, Martinez, Aleotti all on good form is close to if not better than UAE's Giro doms) - but their Rouleurs are really lacking (Denz is fine but...

Perhaps - but lack of contact on the radio could mean the DS could raise it on the riders behalf. I'm not 100% certain how much a rider will communicate on the radio throughout a race, but I would like to think that if a rider goes silent for a stretch then it would be a cause for concern for...

I think you're right with getting rid of the double points for the final finish - I do think that trying to weight the KOM away from GC riders needs to be taken a little further though. Something like giving double points on the next climb to the winner of a KOM point (ie. you get in the break...

It's not strictly related to preventing crashes, but I think some kind of concussion protocol is necessary - where riders can be checked and then motor-paced back into the group or given an average time of the group they were in at the finish should this not be possible. I think if they are...

I think it's not necessarily a question of whether you can train a Geraint Thomas into a Peter Sagan - I think there's always an extent to which a rider can improve in their bike handling, positioning etc, but this may take a long time and I think teams will always back themselves to be able to...

It's almost like some of us here were making genuine suggestions about how to improve safety rather than not caring about rider safety because they didn't agree with you eh? ;)

I do find this a slightly frustrating argument, it feels like lots of the discourse between teams, riders, organisers and the UCI is basically over who ends up paying for things and it seems like no party really wants to, despite some of them having the means to. For instance, the cost of an...

I do feel like one thing that's missing when it comes to crashes (maybe only particularly dangerous ones or involving multiple riders) is some kind of neutral/independent report into what caused the crash so that it can actually be figured out what can be done to rectify it. Otherwise we end up...

If I'm not mistaken, I think part of the reason why Colbrelli had to retire and Eriksen did not was partially down to Italian laws preventing sportspeople from competing professionally with the specific type of implant they both have. Colbrelli could only compete under an Italian license and...

You haven't answered my question at all here, just put a load of words in my mouth. Maybe I'll try again, if we are excluding on the basis of fairness, why shouldn't that be applied to other categories which very clearly confer an advantage?

If this is an issue of fairness, why aren't we concerned with fairness elsehwere? Going to private school confers a huge benefit in advancing as a sportsperson, should we ban all those who went to private school as well?

100% this. Adding to this, it seems everyone who is so vehemently against trans people in women's sport couldn't care less about the other massive issues in women's sport. I've coached girls and womens basketball in the UK in the past and an inability to actually get court time and resources to...

I'm not suggesting that this is what Quickstep have planned, but I have always wondered whether an ostensibly 'weaker' team with a GC contender might feign a greater weakness on earlier and simpler mountain stages (where the GC leader can broadly handle things themselves) than they actually have...

Partially driver behaviour, partially the amount of drivers on the roads (I think Italy has one of the highest rates of car ownership in Europe), partially lots of unnecessary rules for cyclists (for instance cyclists have to stay on the terminal right side of a roundabout rather than taking the...