TdF - Chain Reaction Calamity In Stage One
06-28-21, 05:22 PM
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After this thread I googled tdf crashes YouTube.
They crash a lot it seems.
Almost like the Jackass movie and NASCAR had a baby.
They crash a lot it seems.
Almost like the Jackass movie and NASCAR had a baby.
06-28-21, 06:32 PM
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I watched 80 hours of the 2021 Giro, not a single rider caused a crash ilke stage 1. Hundreds if not thousands of hours riding in a peloton without incident. That crash is not a normal occurance. The road was wide, straight as an arrow, dry, free of any obstruction. The rider that went down was not paying attention, probably touched wheels and in a split second, you got carnage at 40mph.
Fans have always been on the road, a part of the race, always. They are a hazard the organizers minimally marshal. Thinking they could not cause a crash is delusional. It has happened before, but certainly less common than a rider causing a crash.
In both cases the rider and the fan did not intentionally cause the crash. In both cases they were not paying attention. Both are responsible for the crashes they caused. Both are an integral part of the race. Yet people want to ruin the life of one over the other.
Fans have always been on the road, a part of the race, always. They are a hazard the organizers minimally marshal. Thinking they could not cause a crash is delusional. It has happened before, but certainly less common than a rider causing a crash.
In both cases the rider and the fan did not intentionally cause the crash. In both cases they were not paying attention. Both are responsible for the crashes they caused. Both are an integral part of the race. Yet people want to ruin the life of one over the other.
06-30-21, 11:48 AM
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06-30-21, 01:36 PM
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I don't think this is her first rodeo..
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