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15 Comments
My swimming pool!!
Dodgy and unprofessional TTT
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Remco is right! 100%
What a joke! Never again in the darkness! It’s dangerous!
Stage should have been neutralized. Too dark, thunderstorms & heavy rain. Very unprofessional!! A total 💩 show!
Jumbo has too many valuable riders to risk it.
What a shambolic organization of a grand tour that should be world class. Who TF thought of s tart that late in the day? QUE VERGUENZA.
TTT in the dark. 😂
Wet, rainy, dark, WTF for the riders🤬
It would have been cool that the bikes had to run with lights on
When I saw how dark it was I thought there must be something wrong with my computer screen. What a joke.
Kudos to Remco for speaking out, more riders should.
1. That course was unsuitable for a TTT with so many 90 deg bends, whether in dry daylight conditions, or as it was. Particularly in city centre with such a concentration of drain covers and white lines, both of which become treacherously slippery in the wet. The organisers could have designed a safer course.
2. TTTs should only be scheduled during daylight hours. Night time is unnecessarily dangerous. This too is within the organisers' control.
3. It is no defence to say the weather is outside the organisers' control since addressing the above 2 points goes a long way to mitigating poor weather conditions.
Criticism towards the organisers is justified on grounds of safety. Particularly so soon after the death of the Lotto rider. Sincerest condolences to all those who feel his loss.
I wouldn't mind seeing tomorrow's stage being cancelled and the day used to review the suitability of rest of the parcours. To anyone who might object on commercial grounds, since when was money more important than riders' safety?
Racing in the dark and wet not good safety for the riders on a opening stage
Can someone find the explanation for this start time and why the streets where pitch black?
Shamefull for the organization. Remco was right