106th Scheldeprijs (1.HC) 04/04/2018

[Der Effe]

I think the new route is a massive improvement, but coverage starts in like 90 minutes when all the fun is probably already over.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

In the absence of other live coverage, I am looking at the mainly Dutch twitter comments on #scheldeprijs, but although there are many cognates, I rely on google translate.

I have enjoyed such translations as Sandy Marry and David Stream (Casar and Arroyo) as much as anyone, and am not above referring to an certain Italian opera composer as Joe Green, but Moreno Halle (Hofland), Dylan Gander (Groenewegen) and Radhakrishnan (Rickaert) surely can't be valid traslations to English terms (not least because 2 of the 3 are not English words).

 

[Jungle Cycle]

Rob Hatch;
"Hearing from the race reporter that about 30 riders will be thrown off the race for jumping the level crossing. French champion Arnaud Démare among those."

 

[El Pistolero]

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Rob Hatch;
"Hearing from the race reporter that about 30 riders will be thrown off the race for jumping the level crossing. French champion Arnaud Démare among those."

Demare just can't help cheating huh.

 

[therhodeo]

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Rob Hatch;
"Hearing from the race reporter that about 30 riders will be thrown off the race for jumping the level crossing. French champion Arnaud Démare among those."

Demare just can't help cheating huh.

I just get an image of Demare holding onto the back of a high speed rail line.

 

[alexix7]

About 30 riders out of the race ! Including Demare and three helpers of Groenewegen it seems.

 

[FjPavels]

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Rob Hatch;
"Hearing from the race reporter that about 30 riders will be thrown off the race for jumping the level crossing. French champion Arnaud Démare among those."

https://twitter.com/robhatchtv/status/981521562905010177/photo/1

 

[Jungle Cycle]

I gave up trying to put pictures in here(lol) but there are pictures in Hatch's twitter.... @robhatchtv

 

[DNP-Old]

Groenewegen also DSQ.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Groenewegen, Demare and Hodeg apparently...

edit: just give the win to Kittel already

edit2: very stupid by the riders of course. And I'm reading something about a 1month suspension, is that in the UCI rules?

 

[trucido]

Re: Re:

Rob Hatch;
"Hearing from the race reporter that about 30 riders will be thrown off the race for jumping the level crossing. French champion Arnaud Démare among those."

Demare just can't help cheating huh.

I just get an image of Demare holding onto the back of a high speed rail line.

Didn't he do something similar in P-R a few years ago when he banged his head on the train crossing barrier?

 

[Samamba]

So they were already dropped?

Bunch is really small. If Kittel loses this...

 

[LaFlorecita]

The biggest names in the disqualification are Arnaud Demare, Dylan Groenewegen, Tony Martin, Alvaro Hodeg and Kris Boeckmans.

according to official twitter account

 

[LaFlorecita]

Up to Fabio Jakobsen now to beat Kittel.

 

[DNP-Old]

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Up to Fabio Jakobsen now to beat Kittel.

He was already QSI's leader, so not much has changed apart from the lead-out.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

They just showed it on Eurosport player. The Demare group was 5-10 seconds behind the front group (echelons). The first half of the Demare group went through as the lights were on red and the barriers starting to come down, The second half got stopped by the barriers

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

lol what a devaluated race now.

Ofcourse the DSQ is justified. Stupid move by the riders

 

[Netserk]

Demare to finally be suspended for his cheating?

 

[DFA123]

Not sure why they need to use a route with a level crossing that has the possibility of closing as the race passes. Surely it wouldn't be too hard to work these things out and avoid them. At the very least it's pretty dangerous expecting a reasonably sized group of riders to suddenly come to a complete stop from 50km/h when the race is on just because some red lights are flashing.

 

[Breh]

Glad to see the jury putting its foot down.
This kind of behaviour has to be punished.

 

[DNP-Old]

So Hodeg isn't DSQ? I can still see him in the peloton.

 

[Stella0596]

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So Hodeg isn't DSQ? I can still see him in the peloton.

It was Martinelli who was DSQ

 

[alexix7]

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So Hodeg isn't DSQ? I can still see him in the peloton.

It was Martinelli, not Hodeg who was DSQ.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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So Hodeg isn't DSQ? I can still see him in the peloton.

.@Davide_Marti93 is out of #Scheldeprijs after going through a level crossing. All the other Quick-Step Floors riders are still in the race.

 

[PeterB]

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Not sure why they need to use a route with a level crossing that has the possibility of closing as the race passes. Surely it wouldn't be too hard to work these things out and avoid them. At the very least it's pretty dangerous expecting a reasonably sized group of riders to suddenly come to a complete stop from 50km/h when the race is on just because some red lights are flashing.

I am sure they do not create routes with too many level crossings on purpose. But sometimes it is just inevitable and with trains passing more often than once per hour there is no way you can time it right.

But the other point you made is a real problem. In a race, riders simply ignore traffic lights or signs. UCI can not expect riders to notice specifically only lights before level crossings. Of course when barriers are down, they should notice that. So the only solution is that before each crossing there is a marshall responsible for stopping the peloton if red lights start flashing. It can not be left up to the riders to be responsible for noticing that.