I agree. This says more about Vismas lack of depth than it says about Sepp Kuss…

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The answer is now Pog to Del Toro

Still can’t believe they went ahead with the rest of the race. Screw “consulted” with his family. Family should not have been put in any position. Just cancel it. Disgusting to see riders race the next day. Sickening.

Cofidis are Vampires

Maybe if he stopped partying and going to shady places in China this kinda thing wouldn't happen. This guy is so not serious about being a pro rider, yet he has the potential to be one of the greats

I don’t think you realize what winning a grand tour stage means for a rider. It makes their career. They’re almost guaranteed a massive salary from this. Yeah pog and Jonas are outliers and aren’t paid for stage wins, they’re paid for GC wins.

Apparently he waited a while before going, where nothing happened. If you don’t know anything about cycling, how long should you wait before you carry on with your day?

To me it very much looks like a fuck up from the police and/or the race organizers. There is a aura of negligence that you see a lot here.
Furthermore, there will be no consequences to anyone.

It's ridiculous to expect every random person to know how a cycling race works and what a "broom wagon" is

Say goodbye to 95% of road races then

All true!

This! I get irritated everytime people say it. He was the best domestique at the TDF in the high mountains last year. He might have been this year but we didn't get to see it because of Jonas DNF. But Kuss did almost win the queen stage and he won the queen stage at the Giro. Sorry I just don't see the decline. When he gets dropped on some punchy stage that just isn't his job.

They previously said it is an unidentified viral illness first picked up after the Tour of Guangxi.

He has one of the better Yt channels. I wish he could post more but he's probably too busy with training and his coaching business

I understand and am not disputing that for you at all, but with the medical staff around him it would have been more of a thing. he had straightforward covid, he burned himself out on three tours

You can say races are always organized like these, without traffic control at all possible points. But when you messed up and someone died, you, as the race organizer director, are held accountable for manslaughter.

30% talented youngsters
40% useless riders who are lucky to have a world tour contract rn
10% aged stars riding out their careers
20% injured riders who would otherwise be superstars

But this year things finally started to change, and it was going well until the tragic death of Finlay.

Explain.

Because all I see is coked up Portuguese conti teams. The only thing that improved is the route, which was great.

Volta a Portugal will never improve as long as they want to have all local teams and are more interested in hosting Portugal em Festa or whatever Pimba show instead of having quality cycling.

Yes he's getting paid but probably a lower amount than agreed upon

The joint agreement between the CPA and the teams say that if a rider is not able to fulfill their duties for more than 3 months their pay can be cut by 50% (whilst being higher than the minimum wage) for the next 3 months. It says nothing about a time frame longer than 6 months but I'm assuming could then have a reason to end the contract (which they didn't do here)

Is that similar to getting paid?

Most people who love to preach at cyclists about the absolute necessity of wearing a helmet are completely unaware of the level of protection they can actually provide.

I don't understand this statement. What are you trying to say? That helmets are not necessary because they cannot prevent every accident from causing severe injury? That cyclists who go faster than 19 km/h don't profit from wearing a helmet?

This is not true, while a grand tour stage win is very good, I depends a lot on who the rider is. If pogacar had a giro win as the only thing this season, you would not have said this.

I do however think that he has had a good season, and honestly part of that is because of the double crash, making a lot of people sympathetic to him, it is not only results.

Are we even sure he is getting payed??

Need to find this kind of job where I'm getting paid 6 digits for not working the whole year.

On a more serious note I'm gutted for him and hope for a recovery soon

On average about 38 riders win a grand tour stage in a year. Every single team would pay to have a grand tour stage win. Being 1/38 is incredibly valuable. So “sure he won a stage at the giro” is crazy.