Ronde van Vlaanderen: October 18th, 2020

[Sestriere]

This sucks so much I can't even describe it

 

[Savant12]

Looked like he was on the radio and eyes were not looking up for a brief moment.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

This really feels like the 2017 edition. Two great races destroyed by a stupid crash.

 

[fuiers]

Why the *** are watching this atm!!!!

 

[markene2]

100% Alaps fault

 

[Scarponi]

Was it really the motorcycles fault though? To me it seems like a classic Alaf not really paying 100% attention on the road as per usual

The two in front swayed at the last second on top of him looking down for a millisecond and gone

 

[Wvv]

What a disastrous year when it comes to crashes where the race organisation are (partially) to blame for.
Poor Alaphilippe, he had a more than decent shot in his debut.

 

[Ted Striker]

Gutted for him

 

[damian13ster]

I don't think so. Both motorbikes were on the edge of the road, basically at standstill. He just wasn't paying attention and rode into one

 

[ppanther92]

He crashed into the motorbike rather than the other way around there imo

The motor bike stopped on a straight road (thats also why the impact was so hard - abrupt breaking). Why???

 

[Alexandre B.]

No, it's not moto fault

Van der Poel almost crashed too.

 

[Faserr]

Why didn't they warn each other?

 

[Eclipse]

That was absolute not the motos fault I'm sorry. That was Ala taking his eyes off the road.

 

[Red Rick]

Was it really the motorcycles fault though? To me it seems like a classic Alaf not really paying 100% attention on the road as per usual

Looks like it. Van der Poel doing the super late swerve certainly didn't help.

 

[broppo]

there is always something with alaphilippe

 

[Flamin]

Mother of God.

Moto didn't do too much wrong per se. This was a very unfortunate accident.

 

[happytramp]

He looked down and didn't see how close vdp was getting to the moto.

 

[Zephiran]

Reduce the number of motos on all races and strict rules on where they are allowed to position themselves.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I think the mc was slowing down, due to the way van der Poel just avoided it, but I could be wrong

 

[Mayomaniac]

Fri

100% Alaps fault

No, the motobike shouldn't be there at the right side of the road at the moment of the race. That said, he wasn't paying 100% attention.

 

[fuiers]

So it's the dynamic duo then.

 

[jsem94]

Not the motos fault. Moto was standing still for several seconds. MVDP didn't warn Ala about the moto, and of course the riders wanted to ride as close as the motos as possible. Alaf was drafting and just didn't have time to see what was going on, just following wheels. Freak accident.

 

[Wvv]

So. It's a cyclocross now.

 

[richwallone]

No, it's not moto fault

Yeah it wasn't but shouldn't be riding so close to them... Get the *** up and speed up, the road was wide open...

 

[Danskebjerge]

The commentators here blame the motorbike. I don't agree. It was the two riders in front of Alaphilippe who went close to the motorbike, and the world champion didn't see it.