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Trentin calls for safer barriers after team-mate Hodeg seriously injured in Eurometropole crash (+ video)
Matteo Trentin, runner-up in the men’s elite road race at the UCI Road World Championships last weekend, has called for safer crash barriers at pro bike races after his Deceuninck-Quick Step team mate Alvaro Hodeg sustained multiple fractures in a crash at the Eurometropole one-day race in Belgium yesterday.
Hodeg, one of the favourites for the race having won the Münsterland Giro on Thursday, sustained fractures to his left forearm, right shoulder and two ribs in the crash, and required surgery.
He had been in a good position to launch his sprint coming into the final corner, but came down heavily after he clipped the protruding foot of a crash barrier.
Writing on Twitter in response to a post from Pro Cycling Stats, Trentin called for similar barriers to be banned from races – and emphasised his point by highlighting some of the things for which riders may be sanctioned under UCI rules.
The problem is not only there. We go at 60 km/h or more also in other part of the race. That kind barriers should be banned EVERYWHERE! Just look how dangerous they were in the worlds or i the GT TT this year! Flat feet barriers are available everywhere in the world! https://t.co/GQISjoagdf
— Matteo Trentin (@MATTEOTRENTIN) October 5, 2019
The problem is not only there. We go at 60 km/h or more also in other part of the race. That kind barriers should be banned EVERYWHERE! Just look how dangerous they were in the worlds or i the GT TT this year! Flat feet barriers are available everywhere in the world! https://t.co/GQISjoagdf
— Matteo Trentin (@MATTEOTRENTIN) October 5, 2019
The race was won by Piet Allegaert of Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise, with Deceuninck-Quick Step’s Florian Sénéchal second.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Trentin does not ride for DQS - he is on Mitchelton Scott, and off to CCC next year.
Except he and Hodeg both rode for Deceunick in 2017. Hopefully you don't just drop concern for your mates after a year or two apart? Meanwhile, anything actually intelligent to say on the issue?
i think his point was only that the article refers to Hodeg as Trentin's DQS team mate, rather than his former DQS team mate. could maybe be clearer?
not that it matters, really