General News Thread

[Unchained]

Firefighter Farrar: From one dream job to another

'I never wanted the fame of professional cycling' says American

www.cyclingnews.com

 

[Netserk]

first a crash on altitude camp that broke his collarbone , now this

German cyclist Niklas Behrens out of action for the coming months

German cyclist Niklas Behrens of Team Visma | Lease a Bike will undergo an ablation at the end of March. This is a minor procedure to treat heart rhythm…

www.teamvismaleaseabike.com

German cyclist Niklas Behrens of Team Visma | Lease a Bike will undergo an ablation at the end of March. This is a minor procedure to treat heart rhythm disturbances, allowing Behrens to perform at his best again. As a result of the procedure, Behrens will not race for the coming months.

 

[KoopaCycling]

Just saw a news segment from belgium. Signallers are aging out. Biggest group are aged 70-75. Barely any new blood.
They get 15 bucks a race.

Another reason, why cycling is not in a good place.

 

[Unchained]

Just saw a news segment from belgium. Signallers are aging out. Biggest group are aged 70-75. Barely any new blood.
They get 15 bucks a race.

Another reason, why cycling is not in a good place.

Are " Signallers" people holding the paddles at intersections? If you know the answer, do you know what the Flemish word is for those kind folks... If you want cycling to grow in Belgium, Germany, France, Italy.. Always make sure registration is at a cafe\ bar..

 

[awavey]

Sad news coming in from Australia, that Larry Hickmott, founder and journalist/photographer with VeloUK, has passed away.

An absolute stalwart of the British cycling scene Larry didnt just take the photographs, he interviewed racers, published results & had an encyclopedic knowledge of cycling in general, spending many hours travelling round the UK covering the sport in all its forms.

Will be sadly missed, thoughts with his family.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Pais Vasco 2026 is legit the best route of a one week race I can remember. Damn!

 

[pelotonIQ]

Egan Bernal removed from startlist at Catalunya 2026 as per PCS. Most likely still injured, not fully healed to return.

 

[RedheadDane]

Egan Bernal removed from startlist at Catalunya 2026 as per PCS. Most likely still injured, not fully healed to return.

Not fully healed from what?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Can't think what the appropriate thread for this is, but did Mareille Meijering really marry someone called Meijer? Or is something else going on with this CQ rename?

https://cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/rider.asp?riderid=6950

 

[AmRacer]

Can't think what the appropriate thread for this is, but did Mareille Meijering really marry someone called Meijer? Or is something else going on with this CQ rename?

https://cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/rider.asp?riderid=6950

It seems so

Mareille Meijer

Mareille Meijer (born 1995-03-11 in Stadskanaal) is a professional road racing cyclist from Netherlands, currently riding for Movistar Team. Her best results are winning GC Vuelta Extremadura Féminas and 3rd place in Women's Cycling Grand Prix Stuttgart & Region.

www.procyclingstats.com

Name:Mareille Meijer (née Meijering)

Mareille Meijering is in het huwelijksbootje gestapt

Mareille Meijering is afgelopen vrijdag getrouwd met haar grote liefde Mathias Meijer. Dat heeft het liefdeskoppel bekendgemaakt via social media. De voor Movistar uitkomende renster gaat, nu ze getrouwd is, met een andere achternaam door het leven: Mareille Meijer. De 30-jarige wielrenster komt...

www.wielerflits.nl

 

[tobydawq]

It seems so

Mareille Meijer

Mareille Meijer (born 1995-03-11 in Stadskanaal) is a professional road racing cyclist from Netherlands, currently riding for Movistar Team. Her best results are winning GC Vuelta Extremadura Féminas and 3rd place in Women's Cycling Grand Prix Stuttgart & Region.

www.procyclingstats.com

Mareille Meijering is in het huwelijksbootje gestapt

Mareille Meijering is afgelopen vrijdag getrouwd met haar grote liefde Mathias Meijer. Dat heeft het liefdeskoppel bekendgemaakt via social media. De voor Movistar uitkomende renster gaat, nu ze getrouwd is, met een andere achternaam door het leven: Mareille Meijer. De 30-jarige wielrenster komt...

www.wielerflits.nl

Usually people don't lose a ring when marrying...

 

[RedheadDane]

Usually people don't lose a ring when marrying...

She didn't lose a ring, she only lost an ing.
She also missed a great opportunity to change her name to Meijer-Meijering.

 

[tobydawq]

She didn't lose a ring, she only lost an ing.
She also missed a great opportunity to change her name to Meijer-Meijering.

Thanks for ruining the joke...

 

[Unchained]

What a conundrum.. Are we allowed to talk about Cycling News article about climate protester sitting in the road to stop the race?
Are other candidates reading Cycling News and getting ideas for upcoming races?

 

[Oldman]

Firefighter Farrar: From one dream job to another

'I never wanted the fame of professional cycling' says American

www.cyclingnews.com

Unchained:
Thanks very much for posting this nice piece on Tyler. He was much more of the qualities that made him a great racer than he'd ever own up to.
I left town before he got on the KFD crew but heard about it. Good gig in a great neighborhood. He should come out to Idaho and ride with some other escapees of the Seattle area.

 

[search]

In case anyone was wondering... former forum favorite Oskar VO2max Svendsen is now living a normal life.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2036837056408650219

View: https://x.com/t_davidson/status/2036837056408650219


I can't say it's an overly thrilling interview, but somehow I would still like to see more "what's he doing now" kind of features.

 

[Izzyeviel]

"The accident occurred at approximately 11:04 a.m., out of sight of support vehicles, race officials, spectators, and marshals," the press release stated.


"The injured cyclist lay hidden in the undergrowth and was not visible from the road. As was customary at previous editions of this World Cycling Championship, live tracking of all athletes was not used at the event. Therefore, the sudden disappearance of an athlete was not automatically reported. Due to these circumstances, the injured cyclist was not discovered until 12:26 p.m."

How can you write this and come to the conclusion: 'no criminally relevant breach of duty' is criminal negligence not a thing in switzerland?

I feel for her family.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Muriel Furrer

I am guessing

 

[Devil's Elbow]

How can you write this and come to the conclusion: 'no criminally relevant breach of duty' is criminal negligence not a thing in switzerland?

I feel for her family.

Because it requires either of the following to be a legal duty of the race organiser (or alternatively the governing body):
- Every participant staying on the course (which we already knew is not the case, otherwise the Tour de Suisse would have been held legally responsibility for Mäder's death)
- The ability to track the precise locations of every participant (which we also already knew is not the case, because no system to do so was in place and the event was permitted regardless, even after Furrer's death)

And I don't think that that's a Switzerland-specific thing, because we don't have rider tracking in other countries either (or at least didn't prior to this) and I can't remember any race organiser being successfully prosecuted for an accident where the rider missed a corner.

 

[Izzyeviel]

There's crashing. Theres going off course. Then theres losing track of a rider for 90 minutes & them dying because you didn't do an adequate job with your risk assessments.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

There's crashing. Theres going off course. Then theres losing track of a rider for 90 minutes & them dying because you didn't do an adequate job with your risk assessments.

With all due respect, I think you either have a very different idea of what an adequate risk assessment is than the law in most countries does, or that you have difficulty in separating risks from outcomes.

 

[Brullnux]

How can you write this and come to the conclusion: 'no criminally relevant breach of duty' is criminal negligence not a thing in switzerland?

I feel for her family.

To me it speaks more to the silliness around the dispute over GPS trackers, and how slow the uptake was to begin with. It is quite bizarre that a fairly straightforward safety measure was not adopted until this happened; I suppose team radios mitigated it a bit, but a situation like Furrer's was foreseeable and it is hard to really understand why cycling as a whole was slow to agree to them.

 

[Red Rick]

To me it speaks more to the silliness around the dispute over GPS trackers, and how slow the uptake was to begin with. It is quite bizarre that a fairly straightforward safety measure was not adopted until this happened; I suppose team radios mitigated it a bit, but a situation like Furrer's was foreseeable and it is hard to really understand why cycling as a whole was slow to agree to them.

Because radios were bad. At least according to most fans

 

[Brullnux]

Because radios were bad. At least according to most fans

I don't think that really explains why riders didn't have GPS trackers. It is still foreseeable that someone's radio breaks (happens often) and then ends up unconscious and unseen, especially in untelevised or less moneyed pro races. There's an escape collective article about it but I can't access as it's subscription only. Was it a money/data dispute?

 

[Eagle_Alps]

I don't think that really explains why riders didn't have GPS trackers. It is still foreseeable that someone's radio breaks (happens often) and then ends up unconscious and unseen, especially in untelevised or less moneyed pro races. There's an escape collective article about it but I can't access as it's subscription only. Was it a money/data dispute?

They still don't have trackers, or do they ?
Pidcock claimed he was lucky to have the radio, otherwise they wouldn't have found him in Catalunya.