上面说的麦克伊蚊就应该是这位了,上个月刚看到的新闻,很好笑,哈哈。还有其他选手哭笑不得的场面,有意思。
今年环法McEwen在最后冲刺距终点100米处被一个观众打了头部一下,最后冲刺阶段都要上70Km/h了,这一下的撞击差点没把他从车子上砸下来。这观众是不是对手派来的啊?哈哈连接:http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/oct07/oct15news2
McEwen wants more protection
Robbie McEwen (Predictor Lotto)
Photo ©: Régis Garnier
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Robbie McEwen will once again ask for more protection for the sprinters
from preventable accidents. He almost crashed in yesterday's Paris-Tours,
unclipping his foot close to the line and bumping into Oscar Freire. Both
being skilled sprinters, they stayed upright, but it wasn't a technical
malfunction that caused the Australian to unclip his foot in an untimely
moment.
McEwen told Cyclingnews that "I was hit on the head by a spectator
about 100 metres to go which caused me to almost crash, foot out of pedal....
The impact nearly knocked me straight off."
This is not the first time such an incident has happened in the final
metres, when the bunch comes flying down at 60 or 70 kilometres an hour.
Thor Hushovd cut open
his arm in last year's Tour de France, when he was close to the barriers
and hit one of the green PMU cardboard hands that were given out to spectators.
The cardboard hands have not been given out this year, but clearly that
has not been the solution to the problem.
Gerald Ciolek had two encounters with spectators this year. In the Deutschland
Tour, coming too
close to the public in the sprint merely cost him the win, but in
Poland he
hit the deck after a similar incident.
McEwen cited these accidents when he declared that "I'm going to write
to the UCI and ASO to ask them once again to consider using a double line
of barriers in the final 250 metres of races." The Aussie could also imagine
that the "the two-metre high barriers like they use at the Giro" could
work. Either way, the sprinter who beats men and horses
said that "There does need to be a buffer between the riders and public."
First time spectators who are unaware of the speeds, are a major contributor
to problems at cycling races. A spectator at this year's Tour of California
told Cyclingnews that "We have been to parades before," only to
complain about the motorbikes ahead of the race. "Why are they going so
fast?" The motorbikes were of course just going as fast as the peloton,
which can exceed 60 kilometres an hour in the closing phases of the race,
with the final speed often more than 70 kilometres an hour.
Not all accidents can be prevented. Some want a close up shot of their
heroes, something that one spectator was
really successful in doing in 1999, taking out Italian Giuseppe Guerini
just before the finish in Alpe d'Huez. Fortunately Guerini was quickly
up again and still won the stage.
Lance Armstrong also fell in 2003 on the
way up to Luz-Ardiden. His handle bar got tangled up in a cloth bag
from a spectator. At the time the Texan admitted to riding too close to
the spectators. It's impossible to close of the entire road, but definitely
for the final metres in a bunch sprint something needs to be done.
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