Live blog: Waitress was “suggestive with her ass”, says father of Iljo Keisse as he says son wasn’t to blame for harassment incident; “We don’t treat crime committed in cars as serious crime” – Boardman; Roy Keane on cycling +more
SUMMARY
Alaphilippe sits out podium ceremony after team-mate’s expulsion for sexual harassment
Julian Alaphilippe and two Deceuninck-QuickStep team-mates skipped the podium ceremony after stage 4 of the Vuelta a San Juan yesterday.
Sporza reports that the Belgian team cited fatigue as the reason for their decision and a spokesman suggested that the stress resulting from Iljo Keisse’s expulsion from the race was a factor. He denied that it was a form of protest.
Alaphilippe is leading the race, while best U23 rider Remco Evenepoel and stage third-place finisher Alvaro Hodeg would also have appeared on stage ordinarily.
All three were fined 500 Swiss francs and penalised three UCI points.
Keisse was thrown out of the race after he allegedly rubbed his genitals against a waitress on Monday as she posed for a photograph with him and team mates. He was also fined by a judge as a result of the incident.
Team manager Patrick Lefevere was reportedly so incensed by the decision that he threatened to withdraw the team from the race, but they have since confirmed that they will continue.
Roy Keane on cycling
Roy’s struggling to get his head around the idea of doing sport for any reason other than to be the absolute best at it.
“I see people out cycling and think, ‘Maybe I should buy a racer?’ But I wouldn’t be into all the gear and the glasses.
“I look at people about 20 stone out cycling and say ‘What’s the point in you cycling?’ I still have that mindset, forgetting the fact that maybe they enjoy it.”
Via the Irish Examiner.
They're not. They're really not...
Well at least the potholes are frozen over at the moment!
Sparkly
One of our highlights from the Corebike show this week, where we got to see some of the newest and shiniest new bike bits out there at the moment. This is a custom paint job on an All-City Cycles steel beauty.
Near Miss of the Day 246: Cyclists move into single file to let drivers past ... and are rewarded with a punishment pass
Date for Paul Sherwen memorial at Manchester Cathedral announced
A Memorial Service for former professional racing cyclist and cycling commentator, Paul Sherwen will take place on Wednesday 6 February at 2.30pm. All welcome. #PaulSherwen #cyclist #cycling pic.twitter.com/1N0JV4Pz6p
— Manchester Cathedral (@ManCathedral) January 30, 2019
A memorial for the legendary cycling commentator will take place at Manchester Cathedral on Wednesday 6th Febrary at 2.30pm, with all welcome to attend.
Another reason why Aussies might wanna stay out of the bike lane?
Just a casual stroll for this croc, spotted around the Cairns area. Following our story about two cyclists in New South Wales getting a mouthful of abuse for (perfectly legally) riding on a road instead of a shared use path, maybe this is another reason to stick to the main highway!
Driver who killed Carol Boardman is jailed for 30 weeks.
The motorist who killed Carol Boardman, the mother of Chris Boardman, has been jailed for 30 weeks and disqualified from driving for 18 and a half months. 33-year-old Liam Rosney pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving in December and was sentenced at Mold Crown Court this morning. A full story and more coverage on the live blog to follow.
Video: Driver enraged by cyclist riding in middle of lane
“Are you not reading your fucking cycling licence?”
"We don't treat crime committed in cars as serious crime" - Boardman
The man who hit and killed Carol Boardman has been sentenced to 30 weeks in prison. (Full story here.)
Speaking before he was sentenced, Chris Boardman gave his thoughts on such crimes, telling the Press Association that, “the devastation behind carelessness is just unbelievable.”
He said: “We don’t treat crime committed in cars as serious crime, so somebody can be careless and crush somebody else to death and it’s classed as careless.”
Boardman insisted he does not want to see “big custodial sentences” for people convicted of driving offences.
“I would like to see more driving bans,” he said. “Driving is a privilege, so I don’t want those people who commit crime – and that’s what this is – become a burden on society. I’d just like them not to be able to do that to anybody else ever again.”
Aussie motorist filmed himself driving on cycle track and abusing cyclists... who turned out to be off-duty police officers
A campaign’s been launched to pay the driver’s legal fees because he’s “an Aussie hero”.
Quick-Step/Lefevere's reaction to Keisee harassment incident - not that surprising?
As a press officer I was refused entry to the Wanty-Gobert bus from 2014 until AGR in 2015. Rule: no women allowed in bus.
They literally left me standing in a Ghent square after Omloop.
So yes, Belgian Cycling can be bit old-fashioned when it comes to women & cycling #Lefevere
— José Been (@TourDeJose) January 30, 2019
According to José Been she wasn’t allowed on the Wanty-Gobert bus four years ago, which may not come as a surprise to some.
Chris Hoy responds to Twitter commenter criticising him for fronting #OneInAMillion campaign to get more women cycling
Why am I not allowed to care about this campaign that aims to close the gender gap? The interviews I did yesterday were alongside 2 females who ride bikes and they gave their perspectives. As well as myself, LauraKenny, ShanazeReade, Jo Rowsell have been backing the campaign too. https://t.co/RfPete7mwM
— Chris Hoy (@chrishoy) January 30, 2019
Hoy appeared pretty furious at the criticism, with many other backing him up in the comments below. Hoy appeared on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday morning talking about the campaign, which aims to get a million more women on bikes by 2020.
Waitress was "suggestive with her ass", claims the father of Iljo Keisse
It’s the story that keeps on digging a hole… and just when it appeared the worst might have blown over for Belgian Quick-Step rider Iljo Keisse, who earlier this week was accused of rubbing his genitals on a waitress during a photo opportunity, his father has now waded in apparently suggesting that the woman in question might have been partly to blame. From an article on the Dutch website indeleiderstrui.nl, these are the words we’ve got from Google Translate, which admittedly may have made Keisse SNR’s words sound harsher than originally intended: “That woman is also very suggestive with her ass behind. Who says that Iljo should not file a complaint against her? It should not have happened, but he apologised and will have to bear the consequences. Now we are waiting until the storm blows.”
You could say these latest comments are ill-advised at best when Keisse himself had already apologised for his actions. Quick-Step’s sponsor Deceuninck have already publicly stated that they whole heartedly condemn Keisse’ actions too, according to indeleiderstrui.nl.
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Do that one about "avid cyclist" => "angry motorist" again...
@andystow "Alright mate, no need to state the obvious"?
"Both the rider and Birmingham Bike Foundry have launched a legal appeal, supported by Cycling UK’s Cyclists’ Defence Fund, arguing that the process employed which led to the destruction of a £6,500 legal e-bike was “fundamentally flawed”." Good to see my money being put to good use. Keep it up! As others have said, if the police can just confiscate and destroy something which has broken no laws with no attempt to contact the owners, there is something seriously wrong that needs to be sorted out in court. I hope the owners are adequately compensated, including legal costs, and the police learn how to test an ebike.
@Mr Blackbird and what would you say to cyclists who think there are already too many motorists on the road?
Interesting the article on e-bikes having the statement that many English councils encourage pavement parking at the same time Scotland is moving in the polar opposite direction of fining drivers that do. This isnt just in the major cities either, the area I live in, Houston, Bridge of Weir which are medium sized villages have had people fined for even marginally encroaching walkways with their cars. If only English councils would follow this common sense approach. If they want to bag on about cyclists being on the roads, you have zero argument if you then allow cars to block the paths and cycle lanes you want them them to use instead.
“And what would you say to motorists who think there are already too many cyclists on the road?” "Get a grip!"?
Agreed for the most part, especially on mileages. I took a punt and added a Silca Endurance chip AND 1/3rd bottle Synergetic to my wax pot (after seeing a Silca YouTube video suggesting trying this). Still runs clean like a good hot wax, but seems to ladt longer in the wet, I've managed ~200km of mixed gravel and tarmac in a ride, including rain and river crossings, with the chain only just starting to grumble. I would have topped up with pure Synergetic to get me the final few km but as you say, then I would have to deal with the black goo cleanup!
Media such as the BBC help fuel the resentment towards cyclists. Lizzie Deignan was on BBC breakfast this morning talking about a podcast that acted as a couch to cycle for about an hour programme to encourage people to cycle to get fit and lose weight. The BBC presenters were John Kay and Sally Nugent, who always seem to argue from Daily Mail readers' viewpoint. At the end of the interview, John Kay asked "And what would you say to motorists who think there are already too many cyclists on the road?" A totally meaningless argument, which translates as "What would you say to motorists who believe based on no evidence that any cyclists on the road, slow down their journey and mean they have to allow realistic journey times to reach their destinations while avoiding speeding etc?"
16 thoughts on “Live blog: Waitress was “suggestive with her ass”, says father of Iljo Keisse as he says son wasn’t to blame for harassment incident; “We don’t treat crime committed in cars as serious crime” – Boardman; Roy Keane on cycling +more”
Really don’t think this is
Really don’t think this is the right way to go, if they feel it was an unfair decision and want to protest then fine, protest and admit that’s what you’re doing, or accept that what Keisse did was unacceptable and not what anyone should be doing, let alone a sportsman who’s supposed to be a role model.
I agree RobD. Nobody believes
I agree RobD. Nobody believes those excuses, it’s just a shitty attitude.
“Team manager Patrick Lefevere was reportedly so incensed by the decision that he threatened to withdraw the team from the race, but they have since confirmed that they will continue.”
Don’t threaten what you’re not prepared to carry out. Bunch of jerks, get over yourselves.
The sense of entitlement of
The sense of entitlement of these bicycle riders is unbelieveable. They need to get over themselves. Hardly the sort of image their new, hard-won sponsor will want to be associated with.
They should eject the entire
They should eject the entire team.
Is Alaphillipes bike so light
Is Alaphillipes bike so light that he’s using his member to support its weight, or is he just pleased to see the photographer?
The team should have done
The team should have done more… the organisers gave the team the option to manage this directly and they didn’t.
I’d personally have publically stated there would be a signficant fine, which would be used to provide the whole team with education / training around sexual discrimination or similar.
Then the race wouldn’t had had to chuck the guy off the race and we could all move on, better educated than before.
Roy Keane can’t get around
Roy Keane can’t get around the concept of seeing a big bloke cycling, but I bet he understands why a big bloke is at the gym.
Christ’s sake.
STiG911 wrote:
Roy Keane maybe isn’t the brightest bulb in the box.
peted76 wrote:
Did you actually lsiten to the video? Keane was been funny, humerous if anything laughing at his own attitude. I thought they were three of the best clips I’ve ever seen of the bloke; from his football days he came across as too intense, too competitive and here he was relaxed.
Will Chris Boardman please
Will Chris Boardman please become minister for transport, or justice, or prime minister.
He’d have my vote, if he chooses to stand as my local MP.
PRSboy wrote:
Totally this. I’m sick of hearing these pontificating politicians telling me how much they value cycling and support it and yet manage to do the sum of the square of sweet fa.
He’s absolutely right about withdrawing licences for those who kill or maim, rather than sending them to prison at our expense. Not sure I wouldn’t lock them up if they drove illegally after though.
Patrick Lefevere’s team can
Patrick Lefevere’s team can win throughout the year, but if their first race of the year shows off their public relation skills then this team is doomed. Deceuninck and Specialized are already questioning their sponsorship investment is smart within the first month of racing. PL really needs to stop digging himself a bigger hole. Seriously, what if the woman in question had been PL’s daughter or a female team support worker? PL would no doubt have a completely different attitude regarding the whole matter.
ridein wrote:
Exactly. No tolerance for this sort of nonsense, and no excuses after #metoo. Lesson learned? Probably not: given their reaction I expect that the petulance will continue and we’ll see something stupid like Deceuninck boycotting fan photos. Poor show from a great team.
I wouldn’t be shocked if
I wouldn’t be shocked if Deceuninck pulls the plug on this sponsorship come season’s end. Even if the team equals or exceeds last season’s results, the damage done by something like this is not worth the effort to combat.
“suggestive with her ass” ?
“suggestive with her ass” ? I guess some folks just cant stop digging deeper in the abject mess they are in
Awavey wrote:
Maybe his son just has a thing about donkeys…?