Hi Ben, I hope I can reply without you thinking I am over defensive...... Plus, if you read the replies, when all I do is my job and follow the majority, then maybe you would understand my position more. This is not a nice job. Every choice I make, I upset someone. When we gave riders a choice from directly in Arenberg or 1 of 3 different options, they want 1 of 3. Then it's not their preferred 1 of the 3. We will always get riders being upset. We will not please them all. But unfortunately, this is the best or the worst situation. I really don't think I am easier on ASO than RCS. I think having the Giro at that time of the year runs risks of greater danger regards to weather. The Tour has a better date, in my opinion, to have fewer problems. So, of course, it would seem I favour ASO in this sense. I have always stated as a rider that the Giro is my favourite race....

Thank you very much for your help, Chloe. I actually had 2 journalists reach out to me and explain that Chloe is once again attacking the CPA, asking what is her problem? I told them not to worry about you, we have our job and she has hers. However, it's very nice you would like answers and maybe other people too. However, we don't work for you or other people on Social Media. We work for the riders. We have reached out regarding this case personally and like all cases that are related to the private life of a cyclist, we don't want to add fuel to the fire. Exactly what you are doing by keeping this in the public eye to district cyclist from their difficult jobs. The last thing a cyclist wants to hear people on twitter fighting about them. On cases like this, we follow the riders wishes, not yours. Also this rider is French, the Pascal Chanteur, President of UNCP has already made a statement regarding this issue. lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-rout… Like always, you could go a step further and the rider too and make a complaint by a very good system that was set up with the help of the UCI: report.whistleb.com/en-GB/uc… I've used it a few times with other riders, once again, sorry I didn't make those public either. I hope you understand the riders wishes are greater than yours.

See, the lady circled in Red. She has a flag up in the air, and the two volunteers are meant to keep the crossing closed. She is doing her job, seeing who is coming. But the two volunteers out of pictures are on their phones watching tiktok videos....