Itzulia Basque Country 2024, April 1-6

[noob]

Vine

 

[Earns1985]

Not to be an idiot but TdF gonna be Pog Rog. I think Rog is ok, even if he's on adrenaline (he is) he moved his shoulders etc. Might be broken ribs.

Remco with a collarbone fracture should also still have enough time for the tour... Vingegaard will be out I fear..

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Crash just looks like rider error to me

It's a bit of both. The crash is very much rider error because the curve is completely unremarkable in terms of technicality. The consequences of said crash are very much because of what was next to said curve, and the organisers evidently not having thought about it looks foolish in retrospect.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Dude is really lucky or he really mastered how to fall.

Probably the latter for the amount of times he has crashed. Insane if there’s no major injuries after yesterday and today.

 

[Tour de Berghem]

were there images of Vine ? Was he moving ? (

 

[Faserr]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775900358004592860

View: https://twitter.com/TeamEmiratesUAE/status/1775900358004592860

Poor guy always crashing. He was hurt a lot.

 

[Samamba]

So now the break just wins.

 

[Rollthedice]

Crash just looks like rider error to me

Peloton going faster and faster and faster until...

 

[Miha81]

Dude is really lucky or he really mastered how to fall.

He had his share of accidents both as ski jumper and cyclist :/

 

[Miha81]

were there images of Vine ? Was he moving ? (

He was talking and looked like moving head. But it did not look good TBH

 

[noob]

Dude is really lucky or he really mastered how to fall.

ski jumping might help that (couldn't help myself)

 

[Escarabajo]

Looked like Remco was holding his ribs

hoping it is only bruised ribs for him, not broken

his Ardennes campaign is likely gone, however

Remco looked like ribs to me too. He was holding his arm in 90 degrees because he was pushing his ribs and having difficulty breathing.

 

[jono]

Not possible to make 157km safe. This was just bad luck, didnt look like a dangerous part of the route.

There must have been something tricky in that section because Burgaudeau also went off-roading in the exact same spot out of the break.

 

[search]

So now the break just wins.

the break always tends to lose half of its lead at restarts as the peloton just starts whenever they like.

 

[perico]

True, but these years where too many races lack suspense because of a few very dominant riders, it’s a disaster when several top 10 riders are suddenly out.

It’s happened many times. Just look at 2014- nobody discounts Nibal’s win because Froome and Bertie crashed out. Roche and Delgado won in 1987-88 despite both LeMond and Fignon being injured or just way off their game due to illness/gatigue/tapeworm or whatever the hell caused Fignon to not be near his best.

I don’t want to dwell on the naughty times since we don’t even have a winner for those years.

 

[KOM]

FFS i cant *** take it anymore... first Wout now this... Dont even have to mention what happened last year. Its come to the point its not enjoyable anymore... it sucks so much

 

[yaf]

I can consider different things, no need to dictate what I'm allowed to write. I have written plenty about the crash already.

I dont care about your thoughts u could say what u want but life is at stake here 😖

 

[AnotherArmChair]

That bend was dangerous

Guy in break went off the road there and DSs knew it was sketchy

First down looked like a trek rider who was just behind Remco who panicked and kept going into the forest

 

[MotorRouleur]

Curve location

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[ManicJack]

Kirby actually made a good point in recognizing that the ambulances were still on site and not racing down the road to get someone to the hospital ASAP

 

[zlev11]

this is the worst season ever

 

[jimmy_8888888]

I don't want to say this but this year Tour de France is over

 

[Keldergoat]

I see some journo's on Twitter already criticizing the UCI and Itzulia for the route, I think that's such one-sided nonsense. I've cycled myself in Basque Country when I lived in Spain, it is fairly impossible to design a route in this geograhpy that doesn't contain curvvy, steep descents. If you want to take rider safety seriously, we should be talking about the responsiblity of teams, DS and riders themselves in how much risk they are taking on these kind of terrain. If you want to be critical, I get the point that you need to put clearer demarcation of a dangerous corner coming up, but claiming that these kinds of descents shouldn't be in a race is just plain out impossible.

Hoping that all riders involved will be OK.

 

[armchairclimber]

Just got in from a run and turned on to this. I skipped back on the broadcast timeline ... now I wish I hadn't. Why the heck were they just leaving Vine lying as though he was dead? I feared the absolute worst.

 

[Rackham]

Didn't Burgaudeau go off on the same bend? I saw the slow mo replay of him coming out of the woods in the break just before the main bunch went off.