La Vuelta 15 #8 Puebla de Don Fadrique / Murcia **SPOILERS**

gweeds

Boekmans to be brought out of induced coma in the next 24 hrs. Outlook is now better.

iainf72

Boekmans now won't be brought round - Will be kept in induced coma for at least 7 days

Sounds very much like his body needs time for swelling to go down.

http://www.lottosoudal.be/update-kris-boeckmans/?lang=en

gweeds

Obviously a fluid situation. Must be awful for his family.

frenchfighter

frenchfighter

Tinkoff letter. Fully agree. Especially now another of their team has been neutralized by another moto.

1. Unipublic as La Vuelta’s race organiser issue a public apology for the incident, something not done to date;

2. Whilst not seeing this as in any way as compensating for our loss, we propose that Unipublic offer a donation to a charity organization - to be named by Tinkoff Sport A/S in agreement with Peter Sagan - equal to the value of the prize for the Green Jersey victory, or suggest an alternative which acknowledges that as race organiser it has accountability for the safety of its event;

3. Unipublic take appropriate and concrete measures to prevent similar incidents in the remaining stages of the race and its future events;

4. Tinkoff Sport A/S requests that the Union Cycliste Internationale (Uci) revoke the fine to our rider for "behavior that damages the image of cycling". The team and Peter Sagan accept the other fine for the reaction Peter Sagan had after the crash but it is simply inappropriate to fine him for damaging the image of cycling under these circumstances;

5. We also request that the Uci initiate - in consultation with our and other teams’ representatives and other relevant stakeholders - a review of the rules regulating the admission to vehicles' drivers inside the race and the way vehicles are obliged to act while driving in the convoy and peloton, with the intent of implementing appropriate rules changes no later than the start of the 2016 race season.

salsiccia1

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19693720#p19693720]frenchfighter[/url] wrote:

Tinkoff letter. Fully agree. Especially now another of their team has been neutralized by another moto.

1. Unipublic as La Vuelta’s race organiser issue a public apology for the incident, something not done to date;

2. Whilst not seeing this as in any way as compensating for our loss, we propose that Unipublic offer a donation to a charity organization - to be named by Tinkoff Sport A/S in agreement with Peter Sagan - equal to the value of the prize for the Green Jersey victory, or suggest an alternative which acknowledges that as race organiser it has accountability for the safety of its event;

3. Unipublic take appropriate and concrete measures to prevent similar incidents in the remaining stages of the race and its future events;

4. Tinkoff Sport A/S requests that the Union Cycliste Internationale (Uci) revoke the fine to our rider for "behavior that damages the image of cycling". The team and Peter Sagan accept the other fine for the reaction Peter Sagan had after the crash but it is simply inappropriate to fine him for damaging the image of cycling under these circumstances;

5. We also request that the Uci initiate - in consultation with our and other teams’ representatives and other relevant stakeholders - a review of the rules regulating the admission to vehicles' drivers inside the race and the way vehicles are obliged to act while driving in the convoy and peloton, with the intent of implementing appropriate rules changes no later than the start of the 2016 race season.

Can't fault any of that.

frenchfighter

frenchfighter

Richmond Racer 2

video (from someone's phone by the look of it) of Sagan being taken out (link RTd by Daniel Friebe)

http://www.ciclo21.com/el-video-que-resuelve-el-caso-sagan/


go to 0.42/3 - what the fark was the moto driver thinking

iainf72

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19695608#p19695608]Richmond Racer 2[/url] wrote:

video (from someone's phone by the look of it) of Sagan being taken out (link RTd by Daniel Friebe)

http://www.ciclo21.com/el-video-que-resuelve-el-caso-sagan/


go to 0.42/3 - what the fark was the moto driver thinking

Jaysus.

Can't have been any thinking going on there.

gweeds

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19695608#p19695608]Richmond Racer 2[/url] wrote:

video (from someone's phone by the look of it) of Sagan being taken out (link RTd by Daniel Friebe)

http://www.ciclo21.com/el-video-que-resuelve-el-caso-sagan/


go to 0.42/3 - what the fark was the moto driver thinking

Bloody hell. He really gave him a smack didn't he. Absolute madness that one. The whole peloton was moving right to left and he still went for a gap that wasn't there.

frenchfighter

Looks like Sagan swerved sharply right into his path. Whether he should have been coming that fast and close is obviously also incorrect.

takethehighroad

I think that was Sagan's issue, that the bike was coming too fast to react to a rider swinging out of the line.

Same with the Fuglsang one in the Tour, he was coming past too fast to react