oldroadman
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No problem with it being hard, riders at that level should be able to handle that and expect a difficult race. But I do have a problem when organisers expose riders to stupid danger as on the last descent. Absolutely ridiculous. I've been down some technical descents, but not one like that where there are rain gullies at the side just waiting to send you into a serious crash, somersault or worse whack yourself on the high kerbs. Whoever thought that course up and approved it for UCI should be hanging their heads. One of the world's best descenders breaks bones that need surgery to sort out, a young women is hospitalised with spinal fractures, just how far out of touch are the designers and approvers?
Geraint might be fit and possibly start the TT, he was lucky to escape with losing skin.
Credit to the winners, they took their opportunities, but it's not acceptable to have a stupidly dangerous descent so close to the finish of a race that is second only to the worlds in importance.
I don't suppose it ever rains in Rio (as it did slightly in the women's race), a good rainfall on that descent would have caused absolute carnage. So easily someone could have been injured for life, lost their career, or worse lost their life.
Then there was the minor but silly stretch of pave - where half the road was barriered to force the race onto the pave. Why? It added nothing and it's not a b.....y spring classic!
The vehicle regulation was rubbish too, motos everywhere and dodgy passes, looked like anyone who was a mate of someone in the organisation and owned a moto turned into an accredited pilot for the day. And don't get me started on the car driving.
The organisation was nowhere near world class standard. If all that sort of thing happened at the ToB then, correctly, the organisers would be in trouble.
Thank goodness the riders produced some superb racing.
Geraint might be fit and possibly start the TT, he was lucky to escape with losing skin.
Credit to the winners, they took their opportunities, but it's not acceptable to have a stupidly dangerous descent so close to the finish of a race that is second only to the worlds in importance.
I don't suppose it ever rains in Rio (as it did slightly in the women's race), a good rainfall on that descent would have caused absolute carnage. So easily someone could have been injured for life, lost their career, or worse lost their life.
Then there was the minor but silly stretch of pave - where half the road was barriered to force the race onto the pave. Why? It added nothing and it's not a b.....y spring classic!
The vehicle regulation was rubbish too, motos everywhere and dodgy passes, looked like anyone who was a mate of someone in the organisation and owned a moto turned into an accredited pilot for the day. And don't get me started on the car driving.
The organisation was nowhere near world class standard. If all that sort of thing happened at the ToB then, correctly, the organisers would be in trouble.
Thank goodness the riders produced some superb racing.
