Tour de France Tour De France 2021, stage 1 (Brest-Landerneau, 197.8 km)

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Barnacle Bill

Barnacle Bill

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Expected some carnage towards the end of the stage perhaps, then the idiotic random spectator struck out of nowhere. Unlucky for JV (among others) and hope there aren't significant longer-term impacts on their team.
 
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CyclistAbi

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Looks like things are settling down a bit. What a blow it would be to this years edition if consequences of this stupidity would be more severe.

P.S. Tony took the fall again for Roglič. Just hope that he can recover as JV without Tony is just not the same JV. In addition i hope that beyond some road rash riders didn't get injured more severely.
 
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Salvarani

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titan31 said:
Tbh, this is one of the few times I would think it's acceptable for the riders to just stop and refuse to ride/entertain until proper respect is given to their safety.
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Hard to make that decision in the middle of the race. Or how to communicate that to everyone in the peloton.

It was a freakish accident.

And know they put information to everyone to stay at the side of the road. Not run with the cyclist and so on. People are unfortunately people though.
 
Carols

Carols

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CyclistAbi said:
Looks like things are settling down a bit. What a blow it would be to this years edition if consequences of this stupidity would be more severe.

P.S. Tony took the fall again for Roglič. Just hope that he can recover as JV without Tony is just not the same JV. In addition i hope that beyond some road rash riders didn't get injured more severely.
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Kuss was in bad shape also :(. Hard to win when your best guy for the flats and your best guy for the mountains gets injured in stage 1 :(
 
Breezy1985

Breezy1985

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Salvarani said:
Hard to make that decision in the middle of the race. Or how to communicate that to everyone in the peloton.

It was a freakish accident.

And know they put information to everyone to stay at the side of the road. Not run with the cyclist and so on. People are unfortunately people though.
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It was not a freakish accident it was someone being an idiot. Someone made a choice to step on to the road
 
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Breezy1985

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That AF jersey looks even better on the front of the peleton. First jersey in years that I desperately want it's just incredible
 
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Salvarani

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Breezy1985 said:
It was not a freakish accident it was someone being an idiot. Someone made a choice to step on to the road
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Yeah, someone was not paying attention and caused a major crash.

Hence me saying it was a freakish accident.

Im gonna not argue with you because you dont agree with how I worded it, because we agree with each other.
 
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titan31

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Salvarani said:
Hard to make that decision in the middle of the race. Or how to communicate that to everyone in the peloton.

It was a freakish accident.

And know they put information to everyone to stay at the side of the road. Not run with the cyclist and so on. People are unfortunately people though.
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They are but if some people can't behave, then I'd think it's fair that covid protocols become permanent and we ban fans from going along the side of the road. That's obviously terrible for the sport but it's better that than what just happened there.

There should be a severe punishment imo for that person and it being publicised widely in order to drum into idiots heads to not do that. Cyclists are more important to the race than fans at the side of the road. Do whatever it takes to protect them imo.
 
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Salvarani

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titan31 said:
They are but if some people can't behave, then I'd think it's fair that covid protocols become permanent and we ban fans from going along the side of the road. That's obviously terrible for the sport but it's better that than what just happened there.

There should be a severe punishment imo for that person and it being publicised widely in order to drum into idiots heads to not do that. Cyclists are more important to the race than fans at the side of the road. Do whatever it takes to protect them imo.
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Ok, wasnt even talking about this though. I was on the race. If you had a bigger point you could have just made a post about that and not quoted me.
 
Devil's Elbow

Devil's Elbow

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Breezy1985 said:
But this is like when a car speeds illegally and hits a bicycle and the police and media call it an "accident". Its not an accident
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They also always imply it's caused by the car rather than the driver. 'Sentences' in many countries are also handed accordingly. Agree this is not an accident, but a case of criminal neglect.
 
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Samu Cuenca

Samu Cuenca

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It was definitely a freakish incident, cause something like that doesn't normallly happen, and when it does, it's usually during the final sprint.
 
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