Neither of these crashes had much to do with the route.People: How can we make cycling safer?
UCI: Make them start on safe wide roads, but let's make the part where they go fastest full of obsticles and turns.
'twas supposed to jinx the possibility of this happening...'tis the calm before the final 6k where all hell breaks loose and we see multiple race ending crashes including the end of GC G's GC hopes.