168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix organisers confirmed they will heed a request from the riders to add turns to the road at the entrance of th🌜e Forest of Arenberg sector in order to slow the speed of the peloton befꦉore the five-star section of cobbles, but the riders might regret the request.

"For safety reasons and following a request from the C.P.A. (Cyclistes Professionnels Associés) association, the Paris-Roubaix organisation is modifying the approach to the Trouée d'Arenberg,"🌃 the race organisers Amaury Sport Organisation announced on Wednesday.

"The route will take a chicane just before the entrance to the sector in order to slo💙w the speed at which the riders enter the sector and limit the risk of crashes on the cobbles."

The peloton normally hurtles into this five-star sector of cobbles at 60 kilometres per hour, with riders sprinting down the fast and straight approach road to꧒ the cobbled sector.

The ASO confirmed to Cyclingnews that what they refer to as a 'chicane' is actually a 180-degree turn around a traffic island just be🃏fore the entrance t🐎o the forest.

RAI Sport journalisꩵt Stefano Rizzato posted a video to Twitter.com showing the new approach that has been confirme൲d by the ASO.

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Defendin🎃g champion Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) responded to the ⭕video with a single comment: "Is this a joke?".

CPA President Adam Hansen responded to the announcement on Twitter.com, stating, "Riders reached, and we acted on their behalf. 🌸Now, with a slower entrance to Arenberg, riders won't hit it with speed and momentum. It's going to make this sector even harder than before."

The recent crash at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dwars door Vlaanderen, involving 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Wout Van Aert and many others have highlighted the dangers ofღ high-speed crashes. 

The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Forest of Arenberg, also known as the Trouée d'Arenberg (Arenberg trench), is the roughest and most treacherous stretch of cobbles in Paris-Roubaix. It is 2.3km long and often the site of crashes because riders come into the Arenberg forest with so much speed that any touch of the brakes on the slick pavé often leads to a fall. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kasper Asgreen and other riders were involved in a crash in the Forest of Arenberg in the 2023 Paris-Rou𒊎baix.

According to, the Cyclistes Professionnels Associés (CPA) riders associatioﷺn has asked race director Thierr♚y Gouvenou to find a way to slow the peloton before entering the Forest of Arenberg.

"I've raced here twelve times, and twelve times I've arrived in front of the trouée d'Arenberg wondering how I wasꦑ going to make it out," Gouvenou said, highlightiꦉng the dangers of this sector.

Gouvenou has some ideas on how to reduce the pace by adding a few turns or chicanes before the Porte du Hainaut that marks the entranc🔥e to the Arenberg🍬 forest.

"The idea is to add some turns to sloꦍw down the peloton and stretch it out, a bit like the chicane system on automobile circuits," Gouvenou🦩 said on Tuesday during the official recon of the race route by race organiser ASO. 

"Currently, they hit the Forest of Arenberg at about 60 km/h. If we could slow down to 30-35 km/h, it would be less risky. And that would highlight the🐼 difficulty of the Trouée too because the riders would arrive without m📖omentum."

Any change will have to be approved by the local authorities, however, because any extra turns or chicanes could also result in crashes before the pavé and local authorities are responsible for road design and ultimatel๊y sign-off race permits.

"I wrote to the riders, warning them that there would be greater brﷺaking before the Trou&eacut🥂e;e," Gouvenou explained. 

"They told me that they preferred to brake hard and risk falling on the tarmac rather than entering the Trouée at 60 k🥀m/h."

Speeds of Paris-Roubaix have risen sharply in recent years with the advance of aerodynamic equipment with the average speed record broken three times in the past six editions. The 2023 race ran at 46.84kph. more than a kilometre per hour quick𝔍er than the previous year's record. 

Fast race are expected in both the women's and men's races on Saturday and Sunday with possible tail winds and dry🐭 and warm coཧnditions.  

"The riders are a little on edge and are asking us for a little more security to enter the trouée, that doesn't seem illogical to us," Gouvenou s♉aid. 

"But it may b✤e necessary to think in the longer term, in particular about the bikes and equipment, which are the reasons for certain falls."

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