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
    246·
    6 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!

  • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
    94·
    6 months ago

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

    in what way? was he kissing her with his genitals?

  • celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    952·
    6 months ago

    Finally they’re treating opposite gender couples the same as same gender couples! Soon we will be able to ban love entirely for it’s inapropiateness! /s

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    73·
    6 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.

  • Blackout@kbin.run
    479·
    6 months ago

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

  • charade_you_are@lemmy.caEnglish
    35·
    6 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.

  • HejMedDig@feddit.dk
    261·
    6 months ago

    Team No Fun strikes again!

    I think the fine is for stopping during a TT, which clearly shows he is not actively racing. Regardless though, he and his local cheering squad did more positive for the sport than UCI ever will accomplish

    • JayleneSlide@lemmy.world
      232·
      6 months ago

      The UCI could fuck up a wet dream. They actively harm the advancement of bicycling. Whenever the UCI starts administering a race type, that whole industry sector is permafuct. Disc brakes (regardless of how one might feel about discs) were banned for many years, resulting in delay of that technology despite the demand being there. Recumbents are a superlative bicycle design for most humans, but thanks UCI ban.

      One of the main reasons gravel bikes have innovated so quickly is because the UCI has yet to stick its stupid nose into the races. But they’ll be along shortly to ruin the fun.

      • HejMedDig@feddit.dk
        3·
        6 months ago

        I would love to see the restrictions on frame design removed. I want more Lotus 108s and Cervelo P5Xs A recumbent racing league would be awesome, both fared and non-faring

        • JayleneSlide@lemmy.world
          21·
          6 months ago

          A recumbent racing league would be awesome, both fared and non-faring

          Oooooh! I’d watch this. Hell, I’d probably get back into racing. And I don’t even like recumbents that much (but still think they are the superlative design for most people). Without the UCI interference, we’d see some crazy cool stuff. I feel like the best we can get right now are the recumbent speed/distance records.

      • spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works
        43·
        6 months ago

        UCI takes a classic approach to racing so that the bikes don’t become the story, and that’s ok. Recumbents are weird, and nobody is stopping you or anyone else from creating a recumbent league. There has already been a gravel UCI WC since 2022 as well. Disc brakes weren’t universally praised immediately either - it took years for the pieces the fall into place, like carbon rims, wider tires, through axles, etc. and now everyone uses them. I really fail to see the harm here over “slow” adoption. You can’t please everyone.

        • ZealousSealion@discuss.tchncs.de
          51·
          6 months ago

          The UCI’s stance on trans women is not transphobic. In line with other sporting federations, they have found that going through male puberty gives a person who transition afterwards an advantage over cis women. So, they have decided to have prioritise the fairness of competition. There are plenty of valid reasons for criticising the UCI, but this is not one.

          • Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.eeEnglish
            21·
            6 months ago

            they have found that going through male puberty gives a person who transition afterwards an advantage over cis women

            Did they also find that short women have an advantage over tall women? How about lighter women having an advantage over heavier women? How about women having an advantage for having more muscle mass? How about people with androgen insensitivity syndrome? Or XX male syndrome? Intersex people?

            My point is people will always have advantages somewhere (and there’s no clean place to draw the line); no two people are built the same, which means you absolutely can have – and do have – trans women (who went through a male puberty) with no advantage over cis women. The UCI won’t even allow those women on a case-by-case basis, which is absolutely 100% transphobic.

            An actual solution is to divide racers up by skill class and stop gender segregating sports, and to stop caring so much about who wins, but that will never happen as long as money is involved.

            Everyone cries about “fairness to women” and “fairness in women’s sports” when what they mean is “keeping sports exclusively for cis women”; trans women are women, but almost no one cares about fairness for them.

            • ZealousSealion@discuss.tchncs.de
              1·
              6 months ago

              Trans women are women. And I will continue to treat them as such. But if we do not discriminate within competitive sports, most disciplines will be for men only. Because sexual dimorphism. Not good. So we have a league for women, that let most women compete for their medals and titles independent of the mens’ results. Much better. Not perfect, better. Are there enough for a third category? A fourth? Life sucks.

              But you don’t have to care about winning over others. You can get on your bike and compete against your previous times. And you will probably do so in mixed company. In casual races, all competitors are often despatched together.

              Or if you really want to compete, even though you don’t fit into the boxes neatly, try equestrian sports. The boxes are much roomier. The saddles are also much more comfortable, and your sex and gender does not matter.

  • fubarx
    173·
    6 months ago

    And in one response, he reinforces the stereotype of French men as romantics and makes all the rest of us look like slackers.

    Bravo!