Sir Bradley Wiggins on Fabio Jakobsen crash:
It seems that whenever there’s a crash now there’s quite severe consequences because of the speeds, the equipment, disc brakes etc, the structure and design of the finishes. Whatever it is, I always put myself in the position of the mum and dad now of the rider. Imagine getting that call or watching it live on TV, god forbid, and having to travel out to Poland now to be with their son. Aside from his girlfriend or extended family and then of course the teammates. Not just teammates, friends in the peloton. It’s tragic, it really is and certainly puts cycling into perspective.

Sir Bradley Wiggins on how to better organise sprints in future:
I think my initial thought on that was just because this has happened a few times in recent years, particularly with Cav (Mark Cavendish) and (Peter) Sagan the other year, Cav in Harrogate in the Tour de France, there was Cav of course again with a rider from (Marcel) Kittel’s team at the time, he was a lead-out man and Cav hit him. I think reducing the risk of a crash in a sprint finish because it’s the most hectic high speed part of the race but also when there is a crash limiting or reducing as much as possible the chance or possibility of something as horrendous as this because first and foremost it’s someone’s life, it affects peoples’ lives - the consequences with tragedy and trauma. Then of course spectators watching, it’s not nice for anyone, kids watching at home, it’s a spectator sport for families. So for the protection of the sport I instantly thought of a 100m metre race in athletics and the lanes. Lots of sprinters sprint with their head down looking five metres ahead and are constantly aware of riders coming up and sometimes you can tend to drift when you’re just looking that way and naturally drift slightly as (Dylan) Groenewegen did. Obviously then there’s, tragedy aside, there’s the commissaire’s job of disqualifications.

But some sort of markings on a road systematically every race for the last fifty metres even so you’ve got some bearing if you’re sprinting a lot of riders don’t do it intentionally. It’s a natural instinct when someone’s coming either side of you and if you’re aware of seeing lines crossing under your wheel as you go you’re realising ‘I’m going to get disqualified’ you may back off. It might not work but it’s the only thing I can think of when you’re flat out sprinting and you’re conscious of riders coming up and looking at the line that you’re not drifting and not potentially going to impact and cause a crash of this nature. But something needs to be done rather than just disqualifying riders. Groenewegen has now got to live with the consequences of that and being called a murderer in some quarters because it’s bike racing and no one in the professional peloton intentionally goes out to do that to a rider.

Sir Bradley Wiggins on protecting riders:
We had this in boxing with Nigel Benn and Gerald McClellan but it’s the nature of the sport. Sprinters are the most volatile, aggressive riders and you have to be like that to be in the final in that position of the bike race. At what point do you turn that off in the last 100m. It’s only afterwards when the red mist has descended when you realise the consequences of what you may have done. So you’re protecting those riders as well from having to liv with the consequences of potentially, in order to win a bike race, maybe to have flicked a rider which has caused him to go and crash and land in a funny way. I just think it’s for the benefit of everybody.

Someone told me during the week that there’s talks of a life ban for Groenewegen, I’ve read that somewhere or whatever I don’t know.

(They said he wouldn’t be racing until the UCI had dealt with it)

The UCI need to ‘do one’ on that if I’m honest because how do you think he feels. He might not race again because of the trauma and tragedy of what he’s done and the self-loathing he feels of doing that because he didn’t do it intentionally. Let’s worry about whether he ever races again or what suspension he gets. Let’s wait for a couple of weeks’ time. The UCI acting on it straight away; I’d be more worried about doing something to reduce this from ever happening again.

Sir Bradley Wiggins on Milan-San Remo / Julian Alalphilippe / Woet van Aert:
I was wrong about Alaphilippe. My observation was that maybe he’s not in form for the Tour de France after his statements that he doesn’t want to be peaking too soon and he certainly fooled me because he looked his usual old self today, so good on him. He definitely made me eat my words on that one. When he went it was like the old Alaphilippe of last year. I was so concentrated on Alaphilippe that I almost didn’t realise van Aert was there because, maybe it’s his demeanour off the bike and the way he rides the bike, he’s such a class act on the bike. He’s quite poker-faced isn’t he. My eyes were just on Alaphilippe, he’s so engaging you’re drawn to him. His style and his Damon Hill goatee and all that and then at the end you’re like ‘oh van Aert’s there, isn’t he?’

Sir Bradley Wiggins on Jumbo-Visma – better than Ineos?:
Are they better as an all-around team than Ineos who have that mantle. They do everything now don’t they? They might not win everything but they place riders in Grand Tours, more consistency, they win these one-day races, they won the team time trial in the Tour last year. I know Ineos get the job done when it really matters but where was (Michal) Kwiatkowski today? I think he was quite far down, top 50 maybe. They seem to have riders in every kind of race, they’ve really come to the fore now.

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