Nacer Bouhanni asks for €2.7 million compensation from Tour of Turkey: "This fall destroyed my career"
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Only 2,7 million?!?!? Thought he asked 5-6 million compesations? I'm surprised
Only 2.5mill. I'd say 5 personally, he's quite young Bouhanni..safety in races should be far far far higher - Look at Itzulia/Basque country Vingegard and others MASSIVE injuries...it's rediculous
Or MotoGP in that matter. There is a reason, why there is no recent American MotoGP world champion. The sport is getting quicker, riders are fitter, the health of the riders are better monitored, thanks to improved health care system.
The big name bikes, ie: Ducati is now literally running the show for the last 2 yrs now. Today, Suzuki left MotoGP, in 2022. Yamaha and Honda are struggling to keep up with Ducati, KTM seems to be the best of the rest, behind the Bologna bullets right now.
Francesco Bagnaia is the only active MotoGP rider to win the MotoGP world championships twice or more. Only Marc Marquez (6) is the only other active rider to win MotoGP world championships at least twice.
No matter how you feel about this, the amounts or safety in general, this is probably the only way that things might ever change, heavy financial penalties.
Imagine this in skiing, on a horsetrack or in F1 or imagine a spectator jumping onto a swimmer in a pool, why is almost every lack of organisational responsibility « acceptable » in cycling?
If this was America, damages would be huge.
I’m sure even insurance companies don’t/won’t insure riders when they see the risks they have to take.
That and the fact medical bills in the US are huge so insurance to race there is huge too :-)
I totally agree with you. It would be very weird seeing someone jump on a competitor in swimming, or someone going on track in F1. It has happened, someone on track in F1, but he got removed quickly and the race probably yellow flagged.
Nothing happens in cycling, which is wrong. In almost every other sport, there is no spectator that intervenes, yes it happens but they get escorted off almost immediately.
I think there has been an improvement as far as spectators throwing beer and cycling caps to riders, they have then appeared in court because of their actions. But I agree, it happens way to often.
The route is often so long that it becomes almost implssible to controll all the spectators, but your right. We could just controll the spectators there where the race is at that point in time on the course or something like that, this would already be better than it is now, but the length of a race makes it very hard. Swimming pool is only 50m by comparrison, very easy to guard....
Obviously it is harder but I never see guards at a swimming pool because nobody in their right mind would think of walking to the pool and maybe jumping in (though I bet Murphy will make it happen in Paris now :-))
The thing is crowds are « trained » in most sports, not in cycling, people feel like they’re « at home » or in their « environment « not visitors.
But even in cycling, no-one does the silly stuff in sparse crowds, it’s only where big crowds gather that people let go of their control and responsibility so you would still never need to guard the whole race as crowds only gather in a few predictable places.
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