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- If she was the only rider signed at Ineos, did they even have a team or was she always riding alone? Can someone explain what the situation there please? actually was
- I was watching the race this morning, and that was an incredibly sketchy moment. Hopefully Maxim van Gils wasn't too seriously injured, and will be able to return to the peloton soon. Perhaps the UCI needs to be handing out yellow cards to race organizers as well.
- In most sports they have a season long series, so the best over a year is the World champion; not a 'one off' event were the best can have an off day and not win
I wish cycling had this model, as you can't fluke a season long series... .
- What had an impact, taking one straight line instead of another? You can see 2 riders, each takes a different option and you see no difference, in fact at one point it even looks as if the bike lane is the harder path to keep up speed, which as anyone who uses them knows, is not impossible.
Also, if you consider it had enough effect concerning the 2s then why are you ignoring the actions Skjelmose took and admitted to which then must also have impacted back in the opposite way.
I think you are looking at the reversal from the wrong point of view, the ds was the wrong decision so there is no need to explain the reversal, had the judge interpreted the rule properly in the first place there’d never have been a dq.
Hope he doesn’t get to work at Paris-Roubaix with his way of seeing things, there’ll be no winner.
- I agree they need to explain the reversal. With only a 2 second difference in time, they can’t argue that it had no impact on the results.
- Organiser obviously lacking volunteers to control crossings. Very lucky despite the falls, if that driver hadn’t had the reflex, skill or sense to reverse the hell back out the way it would have been a lot worse.
- What corner? Zero advantage. Did you notice him using the sidewalk that is forbidden by rules? No, he used the side of the normal side of the road that at certain points very naturally and straight (actually dangerous to have to try to avoid during a race or a TT) turns into a bike lane (how ironic it would be if cyclists now got disqualified for using lanes designed for them, the last laugh for the anti-woke).
- The site connects every article about a rider to previous articles about that same rider, couldn’t be easier to go back up the chain of information without duplicating unnecessary work and ressources. Sorry, if you have time to write, complain and answer on the subject, your argument about not being interested enough doesn’t hold very long, or is hypocritical as it takes LESS time and effort to find the info then by dragging others into it. And for those who think the decision is mysterious, no, it’s actually pretty obvious. The issue isn’t clear so it takes time and consulting and outside guidance and approval (UCI amongst others, for who there is never any urgency) so questions, clarifications, answers, decisions can go back and forth many times before a final decision which may or may not be in one institution or person’s hand and may or may not find consensus. Rules prohibit using pavements, bike lanes are not strictly pavements and depending on how they are built (many different ways in different p’aces or even within one country or city) can be interpreted in different ways and so is the rule which should have been updated long ago in this respect as it was obviously going to lead to a situation like this. The fact that many of the other riders, Skjelmose included, used similar paths without getting penalized must be considered, in conjunction with the fact that it was only an opinion there was an advantage to be gained which has never been confirmed. But again to go back to the main point for those who will insist rules are rules, bike lanes are not sidewalks. if you want to be a pedant about rules, fine but then be equally pedant about definitions or better, propose to help in writing rules more clearly or completely to remove misinterpretation possibilities, it would solve a huge number of problems not least now that we seem to have gotten stuck with a generation of leaders who specialise in the exploitation of reinterpretations or deliberate misinterpretation.
- Then suggest they do heats with qualification as they fo in other events with too many participants to give everyone a fair and equal chance. Stop making these kind of posts if you don’t suggest a credible alternative.
- Because before he was found nobody could know and the craziest things have happened, kidnapping, hostaging, pressure campaigns, even in « civilised » countries. You may remember a certain even in Spain some months before a Football WC, where Johan Cruijf and his family were held at gunpoint and very little was ever revealed (he refused to talk about it later) but the consequences were that he put an end to his career. I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole event was intimidation and threats to stop him playing to beat Argentina in Argentina which was widely expected (would you tell the world that if you or your family were threatened with death anytime in future?) And how do you think people who know of this react when a famous relative in a critical moment just disappears?
« In 1977, Cruyff announced his decision to retire from international football at the age of 30, despite still being lean and wiry, after helping the country qualify for the 1978 World Cup.[188] This move, shrouded in mystery and met with disbelief back in late 1977, was only finally stripped of its mystique in 2008, when Cruyff explained his decision in an interview with Catalunya Ràdio. It was while still living in Barcelona as a player in late 1977, Cruyff and his family became the victims of an armed attacker who forced his way into his flat in Barcelona.[189] The man who was then the ultimate football superstar was confronted with the choice between family values and a highly promising World Cup glory at the end of his international career. In the interview with Catalunya Ràdio, he said that the attempted kidnap was the reason he decided not to go to the World Cup in Argentina in 1978. As he recalled, "You should know that I had problems at the end of my career as a player here and I don't know if you know that someone [put] a rifle at my head and tied me up and tied up my wife in front of the children at our flat in Barcelona. The children were going to school accompanied by the police. The police slept in our house for three or four months. I was going to matches with a bodyguard. All these things change your point of view towards many things. There are moments in life in which there are other values. We wanted to stop this and be a little more sensible. It was the moment to leave football and I couldn't play in the World Cup after this."«
santiagobenites06-02-2025