Groenewegen

[rich p]

Rumoured to be a 9 month ban, back-dated to August.

Hard to argue with that but it seems hard to believe that Jakobsen would ever want to race again!

Jakobsen was placed into an induced coma after the life-threatening crash and has undergone multiple surgeries to a plethora of facial injuries which included severe damage to his jaw and teeth. He will undergo further surgery next year and hopes to resume training later this month.

 

[dan_bo]

Lester piggott went through less.

 

[Adam4868]

How much racing will there be in the next nine months ? Off season and time suspended.It was a horrible crash and I'm not criticising the ban as such.But it was a sh1te finish,downhill sprint with dodgy barriers.Will either rider ever be the same.

 

[mjr]

What sanction for the race director?

 

[SWSteve]

So he’ll miss the classics and return to the Giro?

 

[SWSteve]

They’re punishzing the result, not the action. I assume the organisers are being pulled up as well...

 

[Adam4868]

View: https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1326450556861345792?s=19

 

[SWSteve]

So he can start the Giro!
It Starts the 8th May.

 

[T4tomo]

effectively banned for the time he was recovering from his own broken collarbone.

the result of the crash was horrible, but some of that down to the inadequate barriers etc.

that said the move that caused it was pretty poor riding, that of a desperate rider who knew he was about to be beaten.

that said he did immediately apologize and has consistently shown regret and remorse since the incident.

there are no right and wrong answers for this one

 

[rich p]

And he was injured himself after the incident so has probably missed very little post-Poland racing

 

[matticus]

David Millar has really kicked off about this on Twitter! But he was too angry to actually make his point - just criticising the UCI, Mr David LAPPARTIENT, #f**ktheIOC if I recall correctly

 

[SWSteve]

Deceuninck suing Groenewegen.

Not sure if this is sensible. But hey, I don't know anything about this subject.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/de...ction-against-groenewegen-for-jakobsen-crash/

Also Lefevre has interesting stuff to say about safety in that article.

Why are Quick Step suing? Surely they have insurance against riders beingn injured and losing performance/covering pay as a result? It’s standard in football and rugby...
...so it’s the insurers who are suing. Brilliant

 

[SWSteve]

Interesting inrng post about this. It's not exactly new, so you may already have read it. But if not ...

https://inrng.com/2020/11/why-did-groenewegen-get-a-nine-month-ban/

The argument will be along the lines of...He got the long ban because there was a horrific result and it looks bad if there isn’t a big ban...but this is BS.

 

[mjr]

The argument will be along the lines of...He got the long ban because there was a horrific result and it looks bad if there isn’t a big ban...but this is BS.

Nope. Maybe try reading it?

 

[SWSteve]

Nope. Maybe try reading it?

I did read it. And what I took from it is that the ban is lengthy due to the result of the crash, rather than the severity of the movement.