Tadej Pogacar talks about the close call he had with road furniture in Stage 5 of Tour de France 2024. #TDF
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first of all today word on that uh scare that you had uh almost crashing what happened there yeah uh I don’t know it was just uh yeah we were the bunch and then suddenly something came up in the middle of nowhere and uh yeah guys in front of me break touch the wheels a little bit touch the shoulders and uh yeah luckily I escaped that uh middle uh how you call it I don’t know the concrete thing uh but a scare it that’s the problem with these kind of stages where there’s not a lot to win for you not not at all to win but you have to be very careful and focused yeah it’s like this um it’s it’s uh natural part of uh flat stages bunch is always together quiet always calm and that’s when that’s when uh danger can come you know when you’re calm relaxed and uh yeah you never know what happens but it was nice for you to ride again with the yellow zy I suppose yeah it was uh nice feeling and uh I enjoyed it uh yeah uh it was a good start also into into the day uh could talk around to the bunch and was uh yeah it was a good good feeling to to be in yellow thank you thank you
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Where was the flag and whistle guy?
If no officer with a whistle and flag, how about a flag on a pole exending above the height of the riders.
Tadej trzymaj tak dalej 💛
What an awesome guy!!
That was scary as hell!
shame on the race organizers
🎉Like I mentioned used to be man flags whistle hay bales to help stop them running into these centre road obstacles; in a crowded bunch doing speed you just can't see them; need height to help 😊
Remember pogy, Paris Olympic Road Race is 22 days ahead, somebody out there is trying to prepare himself for this great event..
Giro was far better managed..there was a person placed in most tricky spots. This was a very lucky escape for pogi.
Pogacar swerves to the left for some reason, and then back to the right around the obstacle, taking out several riders who were on track to make the split. It's clear Pogacar, for whatever reason, caused this crash. All the hype about what great skill this is is b.s.
"yea it was super easy recovery ride"- Tadej Pogacar
Keep safe always Tadej! 🙏👍❤
I'm so happy for him.
Yeah man that divider just manifested out of nowhere 😂
What a shame
He avoided disaster and while doing that he caused ine for others. If there would be any other rider doing like Pogačar, everyone would be blaming him for causing rhe crash, even Pogačar himself would. When he is that guy he doesnt have even a face to admit nor to apologise to the riders who went down because of that.
This was a Peloton mistake. If you watch a relive of the situation, you can see the divider is not at all exceptionally dangerous.
The divider was clearly marked, the centreline of the road was not dashed for the last couple of meters and even before arrows in the centreline marked, that overtaking (for cars) should be stopped. Clear indicators, that an obstacle like this is possible to occur for rider. These things are on the ground, where riders in the peloton can see them. Furhter the front of the peloton did show the obstacle to the left ( the front of the peloton went right), marking it with their arm, unfortunately this did not follow through into the peloton.
You can not have a man with a whistle at every obstacle on the road, thats impossible. I also doubt, that a large pole might help here. On the contrary, a pole might fall to the side e.g. due to wind, making it an even more dangerous obstacle.
It is the difficulty of road cycling, that you have to be careful almost 100% of the time, because situations like this can occur out of nowhere.
If you take into the location: on the street next to Batiment Green Motoculture, 1155 Rte de Pont de Beauvoisin, 73240 Saint-Genix-les-Villages, France, you can see, that they took the largest streets in the area, but there are several roundabouts in the next km's with similar, if not larger road island. there cannot be a man with a whistle everywhere.
If you look at the video a Domestique of him actually seems to show with his head that Pogacar should follow him to the right, but Pogi for some reason doesn’t do it but rather stays in the middle and when he sees the obstacle he tries to follow Soler to the right. Of course at that point there isn’t really room for him anymore that’s why it got so close from my perspective.
However of course the road furniture could have been marked better.
ultra instinct
Can't they put poles or something on those obstacles? Something that can be seen above the riders in front.
King of joy, the biggest.
His family will treasure that moment for years.