Why pro cycling needs to ditch its 'hardness' obsession...
CPA president Hansen, for his part, defended the peloton in a statement on Twitter, and noted that a rider will only withdraw due to illness from a race like the Giro after they’ve spent days, sometimes weeks, over their limit, slogging through the rain and freezing temperatures before reaching, as Hansen termed it, “complete meltdown”.
“Ha, a lot of other things from the eighties and nineties happened that we don’t do now, which we’re proud of, so they can say what they want,” the Ineos Grenadiers leader quipped.However, while the riders themselves presented a united front in their approach to the issue, it’s clear that the sport’s spectators remain divided.
Cyclists, on the other hand, gain nothing by making plain their suffering. A prolonged spell at the side of the road after a crash guarantees nothing but a longer, tougher chase back to the bunch.Of course, pro racers can be adept at playing the system too, just in their own way . The consequences of our destructive impact on the climate mean that extreme weather conditions, as witnessed at this year’s Giro, will become an increasingly common occurrence at bike races, and the organisers and riders are slowly starting to show they can adapt.
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