"And what if we want to call the team with one of the riders, how are the others supposed to know who is bringing a water bottle or something to eat, or who is providing assistance? Do we have to look back all the time as riders without earphones, 25 times, a hundred meters back, to see exactly which car belongs to whom? That is super dangerous!" was his clear statement. Sinkeldam then pleaded for one neutral jury channel, if the earphones really were to disappear.
He is supported by Dutch pundit
Stef Clement who spoke at
NOS: "With this experiment, the UCI assumes that riders can always reach each other, but that is not possible during a busy race. Certainly not during a mountain stage, when riders and team cars are everywhere and nowhere. With this, the UCI is once again shifting responsibility. If only they would first concern themselves with safety regulations regarding the course. The fact that the UCI wants to experiment at the Tour de Pologne is almost worse than irony," he refers to numerous (safety-related) incidents at the Poland's only World Tour event.