Cyclist Julien Bernard fined for kissing wife during Tour de France
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Cycling's governing body says the fine is for "unseemly or inappropriate behaviour".

The governing body said the fine was for “unseemly or inappropriate behaviour during the race and damage to the image of the sport”.

  • Bone@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 months ago

    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!

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 months ago

      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?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 months ago

      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

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    How dare you promote love during a race you shameless piece of shit. The bicycling community will not recover from this for decades.

  • charade_you_are@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    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.

  • Blackout@kbin.run
    1·
    8 months ago

    Cycling is a famously gay sport with men in super tight clothing trying to impress other men. Next time kiss a dude