Riders and teams have expressed their sorrow, dismay, and outrage over an incident at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Baloise Belgium Tour on Saturday that saw 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:two motorcycles cause a massive crasཧh during stage 3. The stage was abandoned with numerous riders needing medical attention, the most seriously affected being Lotto Soudal's Stig Broeckx, who is 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:currently in a coma with bleeding to the brain. 

Given the string of incidents involving race vehicles in the last couple of years, which includes the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:death of Antoine Demoitie earlie🦩r this year, there were understandably many impassioned reactions from the peloton.

Enrico Gasparotto helps call off the stage, adds perspective

Enrico Gasparotto, 34, took on the role of patron of the peloton in the aftermath of the crash an🍃d, with✱ the race neutralised, put forward the case that it should be abandoned altogether. Gasparotto rides for the same team, Wanty Groupe Gobert, as Demoitié did. 

"It was not a hard decision. I immediately had the idea about stopping because what happened was really serious and really bad for cycling again. What happened already this year to our team, that cannot happen again," he said in an interview with Sporza.

"For that reason the best thing to do was give a big signal to everyone, that before being riders we are fathers, family. At times you need 💧to have a look in the mirror and think about that and don't think about winning races or getting contracts. With𒀰out a life we cannot have contracts. The most important thing is life."

Riders call on UCI to take action

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tony Martin (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Etixx-QuickStep):

"And yet another accident with the race motorcycles. And yet more riders injured. This just can’t go on. Today’s stage of the Tour of Belgium was first halted and then cancelled, as a sign that we are no longer accepting the s🐼ituation with our safety.

"Stig Broeckx, who by thisꦫ way was already earlier this year run down by a race motorcycle, is the worst off. In all it was 20 riders (!) who were affected. I was in the lead group when it happened. Apparently a motorcycle crashed🐠 on the side of the road as it was passing the field. It took another motorcycle with it and they smashed into the group.

"It is irresponsible that in addition to the normal risks we face in our sport, we are brought in further dan🐭ger by mistakes made by the race organizers.

"We now absolutely need a round table meeting with representatives of the UCI, race organizers, teams and riders, in order to hammer out unified standards and rules for the number and behavior of accompanying race vehicles. Too much has happeneꦬd al🍌ready!" 

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marcel Kittel (Etixx-QuickStep):

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Dumoulin (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giant-Alpecin):

 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Koen de Kort (Giant-Alpecin):

UCI responds

The UCI responded directly to Tony Martin on Twitter, pointing out that their rules and regulations regarding race vehicles had recently been amended in the aftermath of the string of vehicle-related incidents that have ℱoccurred in the past couple of years. 

The updated regulations, , cover basic driver proficiency and revised sanctions for wrongdoing, but don't signal any major cha🤪nge or overhaul to the situation. 

"The UCI has recently introduced strict new rules governing the conduct of motorcycle riders in races and we wil🐷l be looking very closely at what happened today to determine whether those rules were respected," read a statement on Saturda🌱y from the governing body.