Damage to the image of the sport?! The one that constantly has people cheating and being stripped of their medals? Oh yeah, wouldn't want to ruin that!
Remember when they stripped Lance of his win, and they were going to award it to the next place finisher who didn't also cheat, but they didn't have one?
Pepperidge farm remembers.
They have no imagination when it comes to cheating in the Tour de France these days. Now, it's all performance enhancing drugs. But back in the good old days-
“They would trail a thin piece of wire right behind a motor car, which, at one end, had a cork fixed on to the end of it,” Cossins explains. “And the rider would wedge the cork between his teeth. And then get towed along with this thing, this wire, pulling him along.”
https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/06/30/tour-de-france-maurice-garin-peter-cossins
There was a cool hightech one where they hid an invisible motor inside the frame of the bike. It could not move the bike by itself but it added a few watts that gave a clear advantage. https://road.cc/content/news/uci-warns-it-impossible-use-motors-tour-de-france-309061
"How do you beat a man on drugs if you are not on drugs"
And apparently here is an answer.
"And this year's prize for the best pharmacist goes to..."
The fool. It's the Tour de France.
He was supposed to kiss his mistress.
I'm French and found this comment offensive. Then I upvoted you.
Finally they're treating opposite gender couples the same as same gender couples! Soon we will be able to ban love entirely for it's inapropiateness! /s
The governing body said the fine was for “unseemly or inappropriate behaviour during the race and damage to the image of the sport”.
in what way? was he kissing her with his genitals?
He was that night, am I right guys?
Hey-oh!
How dare you promote love during a race you shameless piece of shit. The bicycling community will not recover from this for decades.
Capitalist perfection: you are paid for cycling, don't do anything else!
You'd think they would be cool with kissing, seeing as they are all wearing Lycra already...
They need to fine the finer for the same thing.
Yeah I saw them kissing the guy’s wife too
His wife might have had a performance enhancing drug on her tongue
It's called love and it makes people go mad
Cycling is a famously gay sport with men in super tight clothing trying to impress other men. Next time kiss a dude
Isn't fining a person for a quick kiss a way worse look for the governing body than the actual kiss? Not that the fools running cycling would ever be able to come up with that thought on their own.
Where was he kissing her?
On the veranda.
Well, obviously, someone should have asked Veranda if she was OK with that.
😱 dear god no!
Team No Fun strikes again!
I think the fine is for stopping during a TT, which clearly shows he is not actively racing. Regardless though, he and his local cheering squad did more positive for the sport than UCI ever will accomplish
The UCI could fuck up a wet dream. They actively harm the advancement of bicycling. Whenever the UCI starts administering a race type, that whole industry sector is permafuct. Disc brakes (regardless of how one might feel about discs) were banned for many years, resulting in delay of that technology despite the demand being there. Recumbents are a superlative bicycle design for most humans, but thanks UCI ban.
One of the main reasons gravel bikes have innovated so quickly is because the UCI has yet to stick its stupid nose into the races. But they'll be along shortly to ruin the fun.
I would love to see the restrictions on frame design removed. I want more Lotus 108s and Cervelo P5Xs A recumbent racing league would be awesome, both fared and non-faring
A recumbent racing league would be awesome, both fared and non-faring
Oooooh! I'd watch this. Hell, I'd probably get back into racing. And I don't even like recumbents that much (but still think they are the superlative design for most people). Without the UCI interference, we'd see some crazy cool stuff. I feel like the best we can get right now are the recumbent speed/distance records.
UCI takes a classic approach to racing so that the bikes don't become the story, and that's ok. Recumbents are weird, and nobody is stopping you or anyone else from creating a recumbent league. There has already been a gravel UCI WC since 2022 as well. Disc brakes weren't universally praised immediately either - it took years for the pieces the fall into place, like carbon rims, wider tires, through axles, etc. and now everyone uses them. I really fail to see the harm here over "slow" adoption. You can't please everyone.
They fined him in Francs? WTF?
UCI is located in Switzerland, so fines to rides are always denominated in Francs
I guess the Tour De France likes their Swiss money
Not the French one lol
A proper frenchman would never kiss his wife, only his mistresses!
I would never pay this fine. How can they even enforce this?
By barring you from future races?
Withhold from team winnings.
Ask them if you can make payments on it. $1 checks by mail.
And in one response, he reinforces the stereotype of French men as romantics and makes all the rest of us look like slackers.
Bravo!
Maybe they should ban trowing away your trash instead.
Was it a French kiss?
or was it an Australian kiss? (that's the same thing as a French kiss, but... down under.)
Well now I'm using this. Bless you.
Uci the bane of cycling even worse are the judgemental cos players who think their rules apply to everyday cyclists.
The french hate kissing /s
Damn dude
His wife is fine
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