🇮🇹 #GirodItalia Ouch.. A nasty crash by Christophe. 🤕 🤞🏼🍀
Christian Prudhomme outraged about cyclist clothing: "It's not possible for a rider to sit on the ground after such a fall with a completely torn shirt"
CyclingSunday, 12 May 2024 at 10:10
More than ever, the topic of rider safety has been discussed among riders, experts and even the sports' highest stakeholders after the spring nearly turned into a survival game, with stars like Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel or Wout Van Aert ending their spring campaigns all in hospitals, instead of podiums.
Christian Prudhomme believes that when developing their material, teams are too concerned with making the riders faster instead of thinking about their safety. "It's not possible for a rider to sit on the ground after such a fall with a completely torn shirt and his skin completely shredded?" the Tour de France boss asks rhetorically in RIDE magazine.
Read also
He finds it unacceptable that cycling clothing offers too little protection. "In the Netflix series around the Tour, Jonathan Vaughters says that you should imagine the impact of a crash as if you were jumping out of a moving car wearing your swimwear. We can't find that normal, can we? We cannot continue to accept that riders wear clothing that does not even protect their skin in the event of a crash, as was the case with Van Aert."
The Frenchman also sees how cycling lags behind other sports in terms of safety. "The collarbone is one of the most vulnerable places of a rider. Then you have to protect this. All other shock or speed sports work on clothing to protect the athlete. Whether it is motorsport, skiing or rugby. Yes, in rugby twenty years ago no one thought that clothing would be designed that could protect the rugby players. Today it is a fact."
Read also
claps 9visitors 24342
Just in
Popular news
Latest comments
- I think you overestimate scientific knowledge and for sure the spreading of it. There are huge numbers of people in similar situations, if there were an easy solution somebody would be making big money out of it. Nerve pain can have many complex origins or be due to complex combinations of reasons. Even if you discover a reason there is not always a solution. Migraines haven’t been solved either. I have had lower back/hip nerve pains on and off for over 30 years, no kind of doctor has ever found a way to reduce, prevent or solve the problem. It may just be that some people are born with nerves that are too short or get twisted out of position during certain movements.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- Amazing ride by her and very promising for her future. On a side note, it’s a bit worrying all these wins riders have after emotional moments in their lives, someone will come up with emotional doping at some point. Maybe give them fake news just before a big race to get hormones pumping.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- I doubt he will have the energy to do that if he continues to do leadout for Phillipsenabstractengineer22-12-2024
- I know several people who’ve tried contacting sport airbag manufacturers and none of them ever got a reply. Might be hard to organise anything with such attitudes.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- It's the BBC. Who cares outside of little Britain.leodis22-12-2024
- Crawl back under your stone.leodis22-12-2024
- Thanks Dadmobk22-12-2024
- Hard to believe with the advancment of modern medicine he can not find a cause for this.frieders321-12-2024
- You continue to platform these two cheats. With that in mind I can no longer use your site. I know my leaving means little, but, sometimes you have to take a stand. See ya!DJ21-12-2024
- Look at what Froome’s won since his last TdF, stop denying there is still more than possible one outcome to the future.Mistermaumau21-12-2024