Men's Cycling Race Forced To Pause Due To Delay In Women's Race
It's the spring classics season, and today is the Dwars Door Vlaanderen.
In March and April, a series of bicycle races are held in the Flanders region of Belgium. The way these days work is that there are junior races, under 18's, elite women, and elite men, all of whom follow slightly different courses around loops of roads that take them over various cobbled hillside roads.
Each race is separated by a time gap and shares the same finish line, but follow different courses and cover different distances, so that they come across the finish line to the entertainment of spectators there (and where the timing devices, podium, officials, and other entertainment are located) at regular intervals.
Each race also has a full complement of support cars, motorcycles, emergency vehicles etc..
A few weeks back, the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad got some attention in the general press among people who don't have the first clue how bicycle races work, or the importance of aerodynamic advantages from vehicles and other riders, when the shorter women's race was getting close to the back of the vehicle convoy for the men's race. This was portrayed as some kind of "keeping women down" story.
Here's the DU poutrage thread over that piece of journalistic malpractice:
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11886914
So, today in the Dwars Door Vlaanderen, the men's race had to be stopped due to a delay in the women's race because, sometimes shit happens in these things. Moments ago...
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