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Old 04-22-2024, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by spoonrobot View Post
There are also alternatives - rules based order where male riders (in totality or merely by class/field) are prohibited from riding with female riders. Everyone starts together but no drafting, no male domestiques, and no participation at all with other females as created and noted by the organizer.

It seems LTGP has the resources to carry this out without issue but I suspect it does not generate the press and clicks that discussion of other options does. After a few iterations I suspect this will be the normal rule structure in a few years.

Don't you think the logistics of this get very hard? Does LTGP already have officials in cars/motorcycles watching stuff?

You're almost at a TDF level of problem (maybe worse?) in terms of stopping cheating if you set those kind of rules on such a long race in such isolated areas.
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