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- 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.
- Quote," We find ourselves in a competition where the car that was incriminated on Thursday had been stopped twice by the police. It nevertheless took off again in the wrong direction," he reveals."
- shocking a french guy defending a french race. this is inexcusable. 2 days in a row
- I will admit to nearly pulling onto the road at the top of the Tourmalet when a Espoires race was coming through a number of years ago, the rolling road block wasn't exactly policed that well.
I will plead very ignorant Scotsman, I was so dumbfounded at myself at what I'd very nearly done, I didn't think to jump out the car and take pictures!!
I guess my message is that unless its very well policed or you have inate knowledge of what's happening it would be quite easy to pull onto a road inadvertently. However where you know a race is in progress there is absolutely no excuse to venture on the roads.