the tour, Spoiler Alert: Christopher Columbus finally made it

cmg · #1 07-20-2018, 10:28 AM

Vincenzo Nibali abandons Tour de France with broken vertebra after Alpe d’Huez crash. Then you read the report and it's a fractured vertebra, still hurts like hell. https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/r...e-dhuez-387401

I didn't think the fall was that serious. slow pace must of landed wrong.

MattTuck · #2 07-20-2018, 10:40 AM

Friggin fans... they need to figure it out. I like the italian approach of putting soldiers in those funny outfits on the side of the road.

redir · #3 07-20-2018, 10:42 AM

The moto's need to carry cattle prods with them to keep the fans at bay. That sucks and that's no minor injury there.

spinarelli · #4 07-20-2018, 10:44 AM

How long does a vertebrae take to heal? Is he out for most of the remaining year?

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Originally Posted by cmg

Vincenzo Nibali abandons Tour de France with broken vertebra after Alpe d’Huez crash. Then you read the report and it's a fractured vertebra, still hurts like hell. https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/r...e-dhuez-387401

I didn't think the fall was that serious. slow pace must of landed wrong.

GregL · #5 07-20-2018, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by spinarelli

How long does a vertebrae take to heal? Is he out for most of the remaining year?

15 days off the bike per Cyclingnews: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/vinc...our-de-france/

Greg

MattTuck · #6 07-20-2018, 10:50 AM

And, just to set the record straight, that article is wrong. It states

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bali crashed with 3.8km remaining as the riders climbed towards the summit finish in the ski resort of Alpe d’Huez, hitting the deck as police motorbikes slowed ahead of him while he tried to respond to an attack by Chris Froome.

Reality, his handle bars got hooked on the camera strap of a fan.

Bostic · #7 07-20-2018, 10:53 AM

It must suck to put in so much time training for the event and an intangible is the thing that takes you out.

There was also this article with Nibali a few days ago on VeloNews regarding boring TV.

https://www.velonews.com/2018/07/tou...cycling_472562

RobJ · #8 07-20-2018, 10:56 AM

A less conspicuous posting title would be helpful to those who are catching up on the Tour coverage on demand

bking · #9 07-20-2018, 11:16 AM

^^^^^^^
Agreed. I'm a couple days behind. Please, no spoilers in the title.

dbnm · #10 07-20-2018, 11:18 AM

How many more ads could Cycling Weekly fit on a page?

peanutgallery · #11 07-20-2018, 12:38 PM

I think a day is fair. You gotta keep up

Spoiler Alert: Christopher Columbus finally made it

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A less conspicuous posting title would be helpful to those who are catching up on the Tour coverage on demand

loxx0050 · #12 07-20-2018, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by MattTuck

And, just to set the record straight, that article is wrong. It states

Reality, his handle bars got hooked on the camera strap of a fan.

That guy better lawyer up. If I was Niboli's sponsor I'd sue him for ruining the team's biggest race of the year if he indeed was the cause of the crash/injury.

benb · #13 07-20-2018, 12:51 PM

Hopefully that dude's camera broke... you're supposed to keep the damn strap around your neck.

But if it's some Canikon pro camera it probably didn't break at all!

OtayBW · #14 07-20-2018, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by robj

a less conspicuous posting title would be helpful to those who are catching up on the tour coverage on demand

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Originally Posted by bking

^^^^^^^
agreed. I'm a couple days behind. Please, no spoilers in the title.

+1

djg · #15 07-20-2018, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by MattTuck

Friggin fans... they need to figure it out. I like the italian approach of putting soldiers in those funny outfits on the side of the road.

Ok, no names or results here . . . but

Agreed -- I get the tradition, and atmosphere -- and the sheer length and geographic complexity of the course means you have to be somewhat selective about where you deploy what sort of route security. But it's just nuts on the major climbs and it's been that way for quite a while. Whatever risks bike racing entails . . . well, racing-ending-injury-by-idiot-fan because the world's most famous road race cannot give riders a single bike-lane wide path up a mountain has nothing to do with racing.

Shoving your way physically through fans, or their signs or capes, or their camera equipment - the shoving, the spitting, the flares and smoke bombs . . . the sheer idiocy of some of the drunken obstruction. You're trying to climb l'alpe at tour pace, at that stage in the race (or whatever stage in whatever year), and then . . . what? I get the luck of the day, and this and that, and bumping and racing, but the crazy is beyond the pale -- at some point it's absurd.