KASIA MELTDOWN ZONE

i'm actually curious, what trinkets do you guys have on your keychains? 🗝️

i just fucking hope that something actually changes now because it feels like every time something like this happens nothing changes. lambrecht died on an unsafe route in poland in 2021 and the race is still run the same way every year and has huge crashes every year (like baroncini having to be put in an induced coma last year). furrer died after being left unlocated after a crash for 2 hours in 2024 and we still don’t have rider tracking. there were so many instances of cars on roads leading up to this and you could see this would happen one of these days and now it has. When is it going to change because every time we think surely it has to now and it doesn’t

more than anything the thing i’m angry about is the fact that this was completely preventable. some risks in sport can be reduced but never completely removed - crashes can always happen, and no amount of safety measures can eliminate the risk of death (though more can always be done). but an unauthorised vehicle on the road at a race like this shouldn’t be possible. riders shouldn’t be left vulnerable enough for tragedies like this to happen. i don’t understand how the first death of this kind didn’t trigger a complete overhaul of the whole system. how is the response to this anything less than the implementation of whatever measures it takes to stop it from happening again. it’s just so horrible