After a chaotic and cut in the Tour de France, a Canadian cyclist has expressed concerns about driver’s security.
In a Personal Blog post on Tuesday, veteran rider Michael Woods, from Ottawa, examined the commitment of the Amaury sports organization to guarantee the safety of passengers.
“No matter what Aso says, they love clashes,” Woods wrote.
“Despite their ‘attempts’ claimed to make the sport safer, one makes sense, when you see any outstanding reel that create, that blood, broken bicycles and a poor bastard that enters an ambulance is what they love to sell.”
Woods, 38, also advocated cyclists to use protective equipment.
“If you let someone fall outside the Pro Peloton in this field of the tour for any of the first three stages, would they think: ‘Why are I useful not using hockey equipment at this time?’
Woods detailed a four -pointed approach that he thinks will relieve cyclists injury: decrease speed, reduce the size of the platoon, reduce distraction and rethink the descent system.
The Israel technological pilot suggested that organizers can do a better job by mitigating the risks that runners should incur if they expect to achieve results in competitions.
“I am saying to the riders that you need to take less risk” is like the NBA that tells Steph Curry: “You need to shoot less three.” It does nothing, “Woods wrote.
Serious accidents are common in the Tour of France, particularly in the first week.
During the third stage of this year’s delivery, the sprinter Star Jasper Philipsen of Belgium suffered a broken clavicle and at least one rib after a success, finishing his tour.
The incident followed Stefan Bissegger’s accidents from Switzerland already Filippo Ganna from Italy on the opening stage, which ended each of its careers.
Another point of discussion for Woods arose in his description that one of the chiefs of Aso, while arguing the ways of making the sport safer, gave the cyclists at least partial.
“Paraphrasing, while listening to the presentation in French, he said something in the line of: ‘The riders must also take greater measures to reduce the risks, and if they do not, it is possible that they have to be forced to use protective equipment in the future'”. Woods.
“He said this as if using protection equipment was punitive. For me, this showed a significant misunderstanding of what the runners want and how sports and life in general work.”
At the end of stage 5 of the Tour of France on Wednesday, Woods is 25 minutes, 54 seconds of the advantage in 122nd position.
The current champion of the counterreloj and the world champion Remco Evenepoel of Belgium will wear the yellow shirt of the leader in stage 6 on Thursday.
