Tour de France 2020 NO SPOILERS !
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randynewmanscat
Veteran
- Location
- Vienne, Poitou-Chrentes
All over in a flash, blink and you miss it, even on the rollout.
There was only one scumbag not wearing a mask on the whole street, yours truly, it dropped out of my pocket on the descent into town. I wrapped my shirt around my head, not a good look.
There was only one scumbag not wearing a mask on the whole street, yours truly, it dropped out of my pocket on the descent into town. I wrapped my shirt around my head, not a good look.
randynewmanscat
Veteran
- Location
- Vienne, Poitou-Chrentes
I was metres from the line in Poitiers on the same side of the road as Sagan and was distracted for one second. I was with a friend, he asked did you see that? I saw it on the ITV highlights, far better view of a man "making progress" even though he utilised his head which appears to be forbidden.
matticus
Guru
On the subject of concussion protocols - which I don't think is a SPOILER to mention in general! - here is a good interview with race doctor:
SPOILER WARNING: contains mention of an injury to a specific rider:
https://www.itv.com/itvcycling/arti...-explains-protocols-around-concussions-at-the
The thrust of this is:
- road racing is NOT like rugby etc
- they do their best to look after the riders
- it's not possible to do a 10-min examination during the race
- AFTER the stage, the riders are VERY well looked after. And withdrawn from the race where required.
Discuss!
SPOILER WARNING: contains mention of an injury to a specific rider:
https://www.itv.com/itvcycling/arti...-explains-protocols-around-concussions-at-the
The thrust of this is:
- road racing is NOT like rugby etc
- they do their best to look after the riders
- it's not possible to do a 10-min examination during the race
- AFTER the stage, the riders are VERY well looked after. And withdrawn from the race where required.
Discuss!
matticus
Guru
One of the things I felt that interview made clear was that teams and medical staff DO care about the riders, and ARE doing the right thing.
Riders aren't being pressured to continue, and the teams/staff are stopping riders pretty soon after these incidents. From that Skujins report:
"... and gingerly continued to ride for short distance before his team pulled him out of the race. "
You or I might fall off our bikes tomorrow and get worse care than these guys. A colleague came in last week complaining of concussion; he'd just self-diagnosed TWO WEEKS after banging his head on a low beam!
Riders staggering about like Bambi to get back on the bike looks awful on TV, but really I'm not sure the riders are being failed by the current system. And as many people have said: helmets prevent concussion, don't they??
Riders aren't being pressured to continue, and the teams/staff are stopping riders pretty soon after these incidents. From that Skujins report:
"... and gingerly continued to ride for short distance before his team pulled him out of the race. "
You or I might fall off our bikes tomorrow and get worse care than these guys. A colleague came in last week complaining of concussion; he'd just self-diagnosed TWO WEEKS after banging his head on a low beam!
Riders staggering about like Bambi to get back on the bike looks awful on TV, but really I'm not sure the riders are being failed by the current system. And as many people have said: helmets prevent concussion, don't they??
matticus
Guru
Clear unambigious rules are vv difficult - because clearly there is huge sporting advantage to riding on; but i can see that those shock sensors MIGHT produce a solution.
A bit like light-meters in cricket, or pit-lane speed traps; no discretion, if you're over the limit you get stopped and checked. Might work ...
FrankTheTank
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SWSteve
Guru
- Location
- Bristol...ish
looks like an oversized jockey wheel (Happy to be told otherwise). Think Ceramicspeed offer them in some good anodised colours
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
No. They're impact protection. An anti-concussive helmet would look bigger and softer, like this early example: https://helmets.org/concussionhelmet.htm
Some suspect helmets have made riders continuing with concussion more likely because without helmets, skull lacerations or fractures would have been obvious to the doctors and got the rider stopped. Unintended consequences strike again?
Ian Boswell has done some good interviews on concussion but I think he's still expecting an improved helmet to help, which it might not, or it might have some other unintended consequence.
SWSteve
Guru
- Location
- Bristol...ish
Bernal has pulled out!
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Adam4868
Guru
SWSteve
Guru
- Location
- Bristol...ish
Blimey
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Adam4868
Guru
Blimey as in your suprised Steve ?
Shadow
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- Location
- edge of the south downs
I thought this was the NO SPOILERS thread'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or have we decided Adam can post anything anywhere?!!
Or have we decided Adam can post anything anywhere?!!
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Adam4868
Guru
Bernal abandoning is a spoiler ? Well I never 🙄
Not that I'm bothered but was it me that originally posted it.
