VIDEO | He rides into the sidewalk and then crashes into rivals - Jordi Meeus receives Yellow Card after Gent Wevelgem disaster
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There is a lot of talk about riders taking more and more risks nowadays in road cycling, specially when it comes to positioning. This was certainly on display at Gent Wevelgem, a tense race, but one where a particular crash was caused by pure recklessness from Jordi Meeus, who was given a Yellow card following the race as a result.
The instances of mass crashes in the peloton this year has been increasing, despite the efforts to increase consequences for risky behaviours. One such is a Yellow card, which can bring consequences up to a suspension depending on the spacing between incidents. Jordi Meeus of Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe was one of the big favourites for yesterday's classic in Belgium, however he didn't reach Wevelgem before falling.
This happened with a long way to go still to the finale of the race, but was a very controversial moment. Meeus rode into a sidewalk, and then didn't brake on time to avoid hitting other riders in his way, leading to a crash involving several others. Interestingly, the Yellow Card wasn't attributed in the race's report, but added later - most likely due to the many calls in social media for action.
You can check the video below:
🚴🇧🇪 | Kamikaze van Jordi Meeus met een valpartij als gevolg... Dit is een gele kaart, dat kan toch niet anders?! 🟡🟡
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- Having to shoulder too much pressure from the Belgain public too much that he made a tactical mistake. That's what public pressure does to you. Poor Wout! Hopefully, lady luck befalls him soon.
KerisVroom03-04-2025 - If he's very lucky maybe he can podium a Tour one season, I certainly don't believe he can win it, evervappaxbipmv03-04-2025
- Yeah, as if fans would now have acquired a right to an MVPD every generation ;-)Jumpyjohn03-04-2025
- Yeah not this year anyway but worth keeping an eye on him (and some others) in future.Jumpyjohn03-04-2025
- poor kid, saddled with all that “next mvdp” crap. eeesh…OCexile03-04-2025
- I don't think so, maybe in a different GT, not in the Tour. Last year, to be 3rd, he would have to be better than Remco. And he wasn't, on any terrainvappaxbipmv03-04-2025
- Or sprinting, or against wind. I think by now they’ve optimised the tire tech and pressures to largely smooth out rider weight effects. BUT, I’m going to go through past podiums to see what weight distribution trends are to be spotted coz I’m curious now.Mistermaumau03-04-2025
- I also wasn’t too impressed by the final lead out, they’ve got to practice that, Wout had far too long to ride alone but then again it seemed as if the lead-outs had themselves run out of steam too early which is what makes me believe none of them could have won, Powfull looked totally fresh and in the end it was just a case of him being stronger than the others, not much you can do against that, just like you can’t outdo MVDP in the end when he’s in shape.Mistermaumau03-04-2025
- Exactly, a rider (or sprinter in athletics) can’t even tell themselves when it will happen until it does. Obviously if you have an idea that could happen, you should maybe envisage testing your theory with perhaps an small sharp attack well before race-end.Mistermaumau03-04-2025
- Yes but 20 minutes as a domestique isn’t 20 minutes as a leader, and you know as well as anybody that Pog winning is in no way a guarantee. Granted, neither Pog nor Remco nor Jinas nor Primoz or some more winning starts to seem far-fetched but a podium would certainly be targetable if he doesn’t have to worry about Jonas.Mistermaumau03-04-2025