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Exactly!This sets a bad precedent, now whenever there's a big crash a team can ask why the race wasn't neutralized
The only reason I can think of is that because all the cars got stopped, the medical cars couldn't make it up. But... shouldn't the medical cars be at the front of the convoy?
As if there aren't a lot of crashes that block the road. Race never gets neutralized for it.
A couple of kms after the flag had dropped.I'm only turning on but did the crash happen as the race started or well after the start.
It was clearly done to pre-empt anyone getting into an ambulance, considering that it would have to go literally through the race.If it was to let the ambulance pass there was nothing wrong with the neutralisation but seems like the race was stopped before anyone stepped into an ambulance.
This I think is the reason. The road to mainland very narrow and the only one, thus the Ambulances would've had to go throught the peloton.Is it that there is only one road to the mainland? The ambulances would have to come through the race
Well... we can only trust that the organisers know what they're doing. And at least the race at barely started.
Buchmann abandoned.
Only two riders were down properly, they acted like 15 needed the ambulance
And this is the crux right here, i.e. we don't trust them, at all (well I certainly don't).
This is the second really inexplicable commissaire decision in recent weeks, after the Romandie incident when they neutralized a mountain descent & comically gave the breakaway an extra 2 minute lead. Now we're going to wonder how, why & when a race should be neutralized after a crash.
If there's only one road out of the starting town the neutralisation should last until the race is off said road. Similar how the descent out of Méribel was fully neutralised on stage 18 of last year's Tour.The immediate hysteria is excellent but naturally totally misplaced; this was 3km into the race, a big crash, and the road is such that the medical cars had to go through the peloton to reach them. There was the risk of someone being seriously injured and needing immediate treatment, so it was right to stop the race.