BILBAO, Spain : Tour de France organisers will install padding on the trickiest section of the descent from the Col de la Loze on the 17th stage as part of a global effort to improve riders' safety following the death of Gino Mader.The decision to use padding was made before Swiss rider Mader died in a hi
BILBAO, Spain : Tour de France organisers will install padding on the trickiest section of the descent from the Col de la Loze on the 17th stage as part of a global effort to improve riders' safety following the death of Gino Mader.
After his death, Tour organisers decided, in agreement with the rider's family and his Bahrain Victorious team, to pull bib number 61 from a race that will be highly scrutinised. Prudhomme added that some 130km of roads had been renovated in the Alpine local government department of Haute Savoie, 2.5 of them in the fast descent from the Col de Joux Plane.
UCI president David Lappartient also noted that roads were now designed for speeds up to 30kph in France, while a Tour peloton enter towns at 60 to 70kph ahead of a bunch sprint.
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