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- It has deteriorated in the same fashion many things do, first the US, then UK, then some large EU countries, then it generalises world-wide, screen content probably plays some responsibility as does the ratio of individualism towards collectivism.
But, it wouldn’t be a problem if all these authorities would learn to adapt. They do, slowly in many domains like drug smuggling (studying traffickers psychology) but not in others like child abuse (refusing to focus on more likely perpetrators) and unfortunately, public safety has never been a priority (except short-term symbolically after big accidents, terrorist attacks, etc.) and cycling races are considered a low ranking level of public safety, hardly surprising as mediatically any accident is easy to blame on someone else because it’s quite easy to manipulate a storyline when the media itself is not interested in getting to the bottom of things.
- Kind if predictable that he’s doing this on one of the days before if you ask me.
- Agreed!
I go to a lot of gigs and festivals and you can see how the security has improved over the years. They are now largely there to support the event rather than police it, by taking away the "bouncer" approach policing becomes less necessary.
Repecting the police and authorities, that's another question. Respect for the police is increasingly non-existant certainly in the UK, who's to say its much different anywhere else
- pogačar could certainly win Roubaix someday. his relatively small physique (relative to the riders who historically dominate the race) will certainly take a terrible beating, but he’s obviously got the legs, the lungs, and the guts, he’d just need some luck — like everyone trying to get to the velodrome at the sharp end…
- Interesting...
- I would say the exact amount your body manages to digest during this intensity of effort. Find that out and the discussion others are having becomes irrelevant. We all have different digestive systems, you can train them up to a point but not someone else’s point.
- Congratulations to Egan Bernal. It's great to see him winning once again.
- The whole point of policing is to make sure safety is guaranteed. Like you discovered, this is rarely the case everywhere and by and large little happens because MOST people have basic sense and respect. What I cannot accept is theat police and organisers are there in positions of professionals and yet their behaviour/decisions and concern is often not professional at all. When I hear the same car was already stopped twice, all I can say is 1. some police obviously don’t know how to obtain respect or take decisions anymore, 2. the way of blocking intersections has not been discussed properly. As so often, there is no space (and no REAL interest here probably) to lay out how to man crossings properly but if anyone asks, I’d be happy to explain some basics which I’ve picked up along the way, yes I have fone this, volunteered, helped race organisers and seen it all, it’s just that I refuse to repeat a badly done job which is generally why people ask me back and those events (cycling, running, triathlon, company reward or incentive days, kids event, fund raisers, charities, concerts, raves, wow, I’d forgotten so much from focusing on the present) improved with time which doesn’t seem to be the case with many cycling events these days.
- Wow, look at the crowds fighting for a good view at the finish.
- It's always fantastic to see the hard workers get their chance to go for the glory. Chapeau to Louis Vervaeke on a well earned win.