Cycling: the French riders’ union calls for "States General on Security" after numerous serious falls
“Should we wait until there is yet another death?“Pascal Chanteur, president of the French runners’ union, demanded on Friday April 5 from AFP “States General on Securityé” the day after another violent fall on the Tour of the Basque Country. “We can’t continue like this“, insisted the former professional runner.
“Should we wait until there is yet another death? For a runner to have both legs cut off and lose his life during a race to make people aware? If that’s the idea, we’re not very far from it“, he was moved. On Thursday, around ten riders were transported to hospital after a terrifying fall in the Tour of the Basque Country, including Jonas Vingegaard, double winner of the Tour de France, and Remco Evenepoel, both victims in particular of fractures.
“I request and I will do so officially from the States General on security to make clear proposalsdeclared Pascal Chanteur. I am going to involve the teams who are the employers and who are responsible for their employees. Visma lost Vingegaard for a few weeks. Let’s imagine that it happens two weeks before the Tour de France. It’s a tragedy for them. And it could have been even worse.“
Pascal Chanteur highlights the material developments and the ever-increasing performance of cyclists, while their safety struggles to keep up with the same pace. “They are traveling at 80 km/h on the false downhill slopes, while they are almost naked. When it hits, you have no way out.“
Saturday and Sunday for Pairs-Roubaix, a chicane was hastily installed to limit the arrival speed of the peloton in the Trouée d’Aremberg, one of the main paved sectors of the event. “When I see people on social networks who allow themselves to criticize the installation of a chicane at Arenberg… I hate them.“, asserts Singer.
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