Lanterne Rouge presents highlights of Tour de la Provence 2025 Stage 3.
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48 Comments
The team has reported that Ackermann just has superficial wounds from the crash no fractures which is good news
Speed bumb in a straight sprint, you can't make this shit up. Whats going on?
speed bump is a UCI ultimate challenge
ackerman looks like the Tashkent Terror, Abdujopurov, reckless, can't ride straight, he rides as wide as a skater
Road furniture has become an industry. My community, already declared an arboretum because of the amount of trees, has found it necessary to install islands in the middle of our 2 main streets with guess what? More trees. And of course more maintenance for our city workers who dont have time to even pick up trash on the same streets.
A speed bump in the final sprint? What in the actual fuck?!?!
Headline – Approved 👌
ban the course designer
There should be a competitor organisation to the UCI. An organisation with better rules
Seriously UCI…you are a complete joke of an organization.
I just read a story in the San Francisco Chronicle about a 17 year old driver street racing his Mercedes at 90+mph in a 35mph zone, crashing into a Chevy Bolt, and killing the parents of young twin girls (who survived the crash). I had to stop reading the story as they focused only on whether or not the teen driver should've been tried as an adult–missing what I thought was the point. If you want safe streets, you can't solely rely driver judgement; it shouldn't be possible to go that fast in a 35mph zone European cities seem to have figured this out….
And in this race we have the opposite effect; the UCI should do something about this. Citycenter finish lines for cycling races may need to be relegated to North American cities, where speed is still king.
I didn’t see the speed bump 😮
Love that Kubiš pronounciation man, you read my comment, love it!
Cycling continues to show why it wil never be taken seriously. A speed bump at the end of a race?? We need more adults at the UCI
Who puts a speed bump in the sprint??? Completely irresponsible! Dumb as shit
Why can't the cycling teams ever recognise and warn of a danger before someone hits the tarmac? Did they not reccon the finish?
I for one am happy to see the placement of speed bumps in the last 100 meters of a sprint finish. The position of sprinters being too far over the bars on a sprint finish must be stopped. It is dangerous to the other riders as well as the fans at the finish of these races.
So that finish line has been set up and their for everyone to see the speed bumps, and you’re telling me it never occurred to them that maybe a speed bumps at the 100 meter mark might not be the best idea????
In the "olden days" Ackerman would have had a fractured skull at best, the way his head slammed into the pavement. Thank goodness for helmets.
He does look on form, Bennett. Man tae watch👍
Shocking finish line positioning…You'd think the race organization knows something about bike races…
Incredible save from the green sprinter (111?)
Well that’s what happens when you don’t respect a speed bump. It’s there for a reason.
Jokes aside Glad Ackermann is okay!
Appalling decision to design a finish with a speed bump in that location – utterly ridiculous. The race organisers and safety commissars should be given a red-card. The riders union needs to start taking legal action to protect riders.
Unbelievable. Are the course designers and organizers ignorant or masochistic?
The uci needs to fine itself and hand it over to akerman. That was possibly career ending.
Little corrention 3rd was Alex Konijn from Nice 😅
It was actually Alexander Konijn, a dutch rider on Nice Metropole Cote d'Azur, not ONJ who finished third. Not quite sure how he managed that but fair play
i am suing the organization if i am pascal ackermann
that speedbump is criminal, total incompetence
Absolute insanity have a speed hump there. Just move the finish to suit. Stupidity
Man, you don't know what a massive crash is. I guess it is three or four riders now.
is it a speed bump though? it seems more like uneven pavement. if it was actually speed bump everyone’s front should have gone aireborne
speed bump with 100 to go is beyond stupid
Been a lot easier for me to watch races with the max thing now, BUT still really appreciate your reviews for races I just don’t have the time to watch ❤❤
Hope the Rockets can keep building would love to see them active in Roubaix
If Ackermann had shorter socks he wouldn't have been going so fast and wouldn't have crashed. People mocked the UCI on safety but here's a perfect example, short socks save lives
Uci,
High sox👎🏼
Aero frames👎🏼
Lens on your road helmet👎🏼
Speed bumps in the sprint👍🏼
LEARN HOW TO RIDE
UCI should maybe focus less on the angle you can have your brake lever and more on the number of jumps the course has.
I have ever ridden a race with a speed bump at/in a finish .wow
How can you live with yourself being sponsored by isr*al
simply amazing!, oh la la vive la BMX de la Provence
Utterly moronic to have the sprint finish there. Please do better.
UCI needs to be investigated by Elon Musk team 😂😂😂😂
UCI could have cut this race 200m short and removed the speed bump problem. Why would they insist that it HAD to finish after the bump?
Bad news for senor Ackerman. Since all uci sprint finishes will be reviewed by the nfl's New York office, upon further review, when Ackerman crashed his socks came down more than 6 inches and he has been disqualified. 😵💫
This is absolutely ridiculous a speed bump in the sprint???? How is this approved.