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Talk of the riders possibly neutralizing the first 50 k of tomorrow’s stage as a protest against what some consider dangerous conditions.

Not entirely clear what ASO are thought to be doing wrong. There’s apparently riders speaking out on social media, but I don’t follow any riders. Some grumbling that sending the always dangerous and nervous first stages of the TdF down narrow Breton roads isn’t perfect. The counterpoint is that the riders are the ones making it dangerous and they should back off (?). Anyway, I’ve no views but will be interesting if there is a rider protest tomorrow.

There have been an awful lot of riders injured and out of the Tour in just three stages. Broken collarbones, arms, concussions. In general I like seeing the peloton becoming more activist and assertive. While ASO may or may not have done anything wrong here, there have been so many genuinely dangerous race courses with unmarked obstacles, unsafe barriers, poor crowd control, motos crashing riders, etc. And the peloton has historically been pretty powerless.