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It would just be for whoever wants the UCI points/a nice win.
40% of winners time according to the road book - but ... 3,000 Euros for the winner so who feels poor?
LOL, thats incorrect.
The wind might die down but early morning videos made it look as if it was knocking down anything and everything, so even if cyclists don't fall there is a risk of objects flying at them.
Because they are balancing danger with economic liability of a cancelled stage, hope this helps.
You started off the argument, because it was about safety.
I don't get your point – it is obviously about both, as I said in the first post re organisers trying to find any way to let the stage go ahead. In other words, balancing rider safety with the danger posed by wind. That's just... the role of an organiser, especially of a smaller race with more losses on the line if a stage is cancelled in its entirety. I don't understand what is so hard to understand?
Cancel the stage rather than letting this farce go on.
That's fair, but the fact it's spread over three hours or so might lead to some odd discrepancies re first batch trying to just stay on a bike and last 30 going hard bc it's completely fine. I guess that's just cycling though.
They should cancel PR, next time it rains.
If it's unsafe to race, they shouldn't be out there. If they can be out there and everyone has to complete the parcours, GC times should count. In fact, all you need to do is cut the time limit and you keep the race as it should be with the same safety precaution
This is not really true, though – there do exist situations which sit on the edge of objectively too dangerous to race, but dangerous enough that some cyclists justifiably feel uncomfortable to race hard. In those situations, why not allow some freedom to the cyclists in question to judge how hard they want to go for a stage win? Not all cyclists will feel safe in the same situations; situations can change over several hours (relevant in a TT); and conditions sometimes cannot be objectively assessed.
Riders are free to take all the risks they're comfortable with. Counting GC times doesn't change that.
That is not the same logic, you've taken it to an absurd end for the purposes of avoiding all nuance. This is with regards to an extremely specific situation, not 'every descent'.
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