86th Tour de Suisse (2.UWT) // June 11th - 18th 2023

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there are two interviews with the race doctor available in Swiss media (one on Blick's website, one during SRF's coverage today), and he said that both riders were located inside the streambed. He also mentions that after resuscitation they checked Mäder (as well as possible) for broken bones before his transport to the clinic, and weren't able to locate any obvious injuries. So he assumes that he suffered from a traumatic brain injury. So in the end, to me it sounds like one rider was probably just more lucky than the other.

According to him, they were stopped by a commissaire and a spectator, btw, so that should also exclude that any team car was present already at this point.
Thank you for your posts. What a tragic incident
 
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Her name is actually Sandra Mäder. She was quite active on twitter following her son.
The reason Gino started cycling and wanted to turn professional was that he wanted his parents greeting him
on the side of the road together after they split when he was a teenager.

Oh, and Gino has no connection to Gino Bartali as cyclingnews writes in their report. She wrote on twitter once that she just liked the name.
 
Her name is actually Sandra Mäder. She was quite active on twitter following her son.
The reason Gino started cycling and wanted to turn professional was that he wanted his parents greeting him
on the side of the road together after they split when he was a teenager.

Oh, and Gino has no connection to Gino Bartali as cyclingnews writes in their report. She wrote on twitter once that she just liked the name.
Why did Eurosport call her Heidi? Did they not know her name and copied the most cliché name?
 
So they're allegedly planning on taking the time 25 km from the line tomorrow. I'm not sure I understand the reasoning behind this. Is the descent from Ottenberg dangerous in any way?
It isn't the widest road in the world (not especially narrow but narrower than you usually get in Switzerland), but it's also at low gradients, down a gentle hillside with zero drops next to the road, without any technical sections as far as I can tell.
 
The stage will finish at the top of Ottenberg, 18.8 km from where the stage winner will be crowned.

 
The stage will finish at the top of Ottenberg, 18.8 km from where the stage winner will be crowned.

Completely drunk decision, making up an uphill shootout for the GC contenders followed by a stage win fight at the finish. That changes the race completely.
 
This is so weird… just finish on top of Ottenburg as a compensation of today. Stopping the time at Ottenburg but letting others still sprint for victory later is extremely weird. Never even heard of such a thing

The logic probably is for the GC teams to take it easy on the last descent.

But if the GC riders are already in front after gunning it up the last climb, why wouldn't they continue for the stage win after getting rid of the heavier riders?

Outside of possibly Remco, none of these riders shrug off a WT stage win.