If you let random French fans to effect your racing, the problem is on you, not them.
Quick question. Shouldn't Pog ride in UAE kit when training? He probably tries to blend in more and uses plain colors kit for it.
Sometimes we forget that they're humans. Then we shouldn't talk too much about mental health and complain when an athlete retires due to mental health issues. Of course these things influence them.
The other day, Del Toro made a mistake, crashed, and knocked Ciccone down. It was an accident, but there were reactions that even insulted him for an accident.
An anonymous person on a forum is nobody, but thousands, and of influencer accounts, insulting and verbally attacking each day, take their toll on a human being, and this is also happening in France in many Tours.
Sometimes it seems like some people want Pogacar to be attacked like Merckx at the Tour de Thevenet.
The fans can't be the judges, and they end up being that way. They're increasingly aggressive if they don't achieve their goal, to the point of attacking a cyclist like Merckx.
It was social media that decided Kuss had to win a GT.
That's what many bitter people want. They'd rather watch a lie than professional sport. Professional sport is about competing and winning. Can anyone imagine asking Jordan or Bolt to let themselves win? That's what you read every day in this sport, and som fans are aggressive until they get it.
I've never understood what those people do watching professional sports. Professional sports are all about winning and being the best, which is why the best athletes in history are people with multiple victories. This is something that many fans of high-performance sports hate, who prefer to see a lie in the Vuelta2023 or a stage given to cyclists who aren't the best.
The problem needs to be focused on these people, not on the athlete they end up affecting with their verbal attacks. For now, Mercks suffered a physical attack.
The feeling is that the next step in the Tour is physical aggression.