The governing body said the fine was for “unseemly or inappropriate behaviour during the race and damage to the image of the sport”.
How dare you promote love during a race you shameless piece of shit. The bicycling community will not recover from this for decades.
You’d think they would be cool with kissing, seeing as they are all wearing Lycra already…
Capitalist perfection: you are paid for cycling, don’t do anything else!
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He was that night, am I right guys?
Hey-oh!
Damage to the image of the sport?! The one that constantly has people cheating and being stripped of their medals? Oh yeah, wouldn’t want to ruin that!
They have no imagination when it comes to cheating in the Tour de France these days. Now, it’s all performance enhancing drugs. But back in the good old days-
“They would trail a thin piece of wire right behind a motor car, which, at one end, had a cork fixed on to the end of it,” Cossins explains. “And the rider would wedge the cork between his teeth. And then get towed along with this thing, this wire, pulling him along.”
https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/06/30/tour-de-france-maurice-garin-peter-cossins
There was a cool hightech one where they hid an invisible motor inside the frame of the bike. It could not move the bike by itself but it added a few watts that gave a clear advantage. https://road.cc/content/news/uci-warns-it-impossible-use-motors-tour-de-france-309061
“How do you beat a man on drugs if you are not on drugs”
And apparently here is an answer.
“And this year’s prize for the best pharmacist goes to…”
Remember when they stripped Lance of his win, and they were going to award it to the next place finisher who didn’t also cheat, but they didn’t have one?
Pepperidge farm remembers.
They fined him in Francs? WTF?
I guess the Tour De France likes their Swiss money
UCI is located in Switzerland, so fines to rides are always denominated in Francs
Not the French one lol
The fool. It’s the Tour de France.
He was supposed to kiss his mistress.
I’m French and found this comment offensive. Then I upvoted you.
The french hate kissing /s
Cycling is a famously gay sport with men in super tight clothing trying to impress other men. Next time kiss a dude
Maybe they should ban trowing away your trash instead.
And in one response, he reinforces the stereotype of French men as romantics and makes all the rest of us look like slackers.
Bravo!
Uci the bane of cycling even worse are the judgemental cos players who think their rules apply to everyday cyclists.
They need to fine the finer for the same thing.
Yeah I saw them kissing the guy’s wife too
His wife might have had a performance enhancing drug on her tongue
A proper frenchman would never kiss his wife, only his mistresses!
Was it a French kiss?
or was it an Australian kiss? (that’s the same thing as a French kiss, but… down under.)
Well now I’m using this. Bless you.
Isn’t fining a person for a quick kiss a way worse look for the governing body than the actual kiss? Not that the fools running cycling would ever be able to come up with that thought on their own.
