{"id":316080,"date":"2025-11-29T08:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/316080\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T08:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:27:21","slug":"for-jay-vine-it-could-have-prevented-a-lot-of-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/316080\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFor Jay Vine, it could have prevented a lot of crashes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Clement, the pathway is too heavily weighted towards physiological numbers, with little attention paid to real-world riding skills. \u201cYou just need to prove on an ergometer that you\u2019ve got the engine, and then you\u2019re set loose. It\u2019s like being allowed to drive in Formula 1 with only a tractor licence and hoping for the best. Some sort of evidence of competence, some basic bike-handling, might actually be quite useful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressed by presenter Sander Kleikers, Clement was confronted with the example of <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/jay-vine\" title=\"Jay Vine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Vine<\/a>, whose rise to the WorldTour came via the virtual-racing talent programme Zwift Academy. Clement responded directly, saying: \u201cWell, I reckon we could have prevented a lot of crashes. For him it would have been better to do a small crash-course first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The point, Clement stressed, was not to single out individuals but to highlight a structural gap. Riders can enter the sport with enormous physical potential yet limited experience in high-speed bunch racing \u2014 a mismatch he believes should no longer be left to chance.<\/p>\n<p>Clement\u2019s proposal for a formal competency test \u2014 something akin to a minimum bike-handling standard for all new professionals \u2014 adds another thread to the growing conversation around rider safety. With the sport continuing to face questions over descending speeds, bunch crashes and the increasing number of young riders entering the WorldTour at an early age, suggestions that once sounded radical are beginning to find an audience.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the peloton, the teams or the UCI are willing to embrace formalised skills testing remains to be seen. But Clement\u2019s comments reflect a wider shift: the idea that raw power is no longer enough, and that modern cycling may require a rethink of what it means to be \u201cready\u201d for the professional level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Clement, the pathway is too heavily weighted towards physiological numbers, with little attention paid to real-world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,89775,85,178573,19805],"class_list":{"0":"post-316080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-jay-vine","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-stef-clement","14":"tag-uae-team-emirates-xrg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}