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Adam Hansen

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President of the @cpacycling, Ex-Pro at riding a bike, Did more Grand Tours than fingers and toes. Here to protect the riders.

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Its sad for me to see Wout Poels have one of his biggest moments, winning a stage Tour de France™, which is an almost impossible task. I would really appreciate for him or any winner to have more than 2 seconds of TV time, so he can show his son what he had achieved. The GC guys are shown everyday. Please, I ask kindly France Télévisions give these guys and their teams more exposure that they deserve...

Its sad for me to see Wout Poels have one of his biggest moments, winning a stage Tour de France™, which is an almost impossible task. I would really appreciate for him or any winner to have more than 2 seconds of TV time, so he can show his son what he had achieved. The GC guys are shown everyday. Please, I ask kindly France Télévisions give these guys and their teams more exposure that they deserve...

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Today's Tour de France™ stage will be the first stage to test the extension of the 3km rule to 5km. The 3km rule is a zone where GC riders aim to be "Safe" in case a crash happens they don't lose time. By extending this to 5km "should" make less stress in the final. Thus giving the sprinter teams more space and have a slightly less condensed bunch coming in. Also, with today's rule of 3 seconds enables riders to have about a 50m gap between riders to still get the same bunch time. This will leave greater spacing and "should" make it more safe in these hectic finals. Normally the sprinting teams use these GC teams and sit behind them to save energy till the 3km line and then move themselves to the front. Sometimes they loose each other because it's hectic and a short 3km time to find each other. Today in theory they have more time(5km) to find each other and what will make it interesting is, the sprinting teams might have to go from 5km out, instead of 3km out like before. This will be much harder and we hope for a slightly reduced speed as they have to conserve their energy. This was a main request from the riders to improve safety within the SafeR Program. For the riders I really hope this helps, and it will be interesting to see. @mcewenrobbie explains it perfect during the Giro d'Italia in this video:

Today's Tour de France™ stage will be the first stage to test the extension of the 3km rule to 5km. The 3km rule is a zone where GC riders aim to be "Safe" in case a crash happens they don't lose time. By extending this to 5km "should" make less stress in the final. Thus giving the sprinter teams more space and have a slightly less condensed bunch coming in. Also, with today's rule of 3 seconds enables riders to have about a 50m gap between riders to still get the same bunch time. This will leave greater spacing and "should" make it more safe in these hectic finals. Normally the sprinting teams use these GC teams and sit behind them to save energy till the 3km line and then move themselves to the front. Sometimes they loose each other because it's hectic and a short 3km time to find each other. Today in theory they have more time(5km) to find each other and what will make it interesting is, the sprinting teams might have to go from 5km out, instead of 3km out like before. This will be much harder and we hope for a slightly reduced speed as they have to conserve their energy. This was a main request from the riders to improve safety within the SafeR Program. For the riders I really hope this helps, and it will be interesting to see. @mcewenrobbie explains it perfect during the Giro d'Italia in this video:

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Another race and another wrong turn. Today, there was a green sign telling the moto (that was again too close to the riders) to turn off the road. Last time in Algarve, there was a red sign and a yellow sign. (Confusing for someone trying following the Marshall's instructions) How about we have: No motos close to the bunch. Standardised of signs. Or even better, no vehicles in the final km... It's really upsetting for a rider turning up, racing a full day, and right in the very end. This happens. Riders crashed because of this, and a few were put onto a road with cars coming in the opposite direction... A little double checking could avoid this.

Another race and another wrong turn. Today, there was a green sign telling the moto (that was again too close to the riders) to turn off the road. Last time in Algarve, there was a red sign and a yellow sign. (Confusing for someone trying following the Marshall's instructions) How about we have: No motos close to the bunch. Standardised of signs. Or even better, no vehicles in the final km... It's really upsetting for a rider turning up, racing a full day, and right in the very end. This happens. Riders crashed because of this, and a few were put onto a road with cars coming in the opposite direction... A little double checking could avoid this.

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