Tour de Langkawi

Right, yes, I get it.

Anyway, sticking with racing, some of you might know that Ronan Auger of Unibet Rose Rockets suffered a really nasty crash at the Tour de Langkawi a few weeks ago, so severe actually that he remains in hospital there to this day.

The list of injuries are extensive, seven fractures, including tibia, elbow, cervical vertebrae, ribs, fingers, and skull, plus a collapsed lung.

Further to all of that though, half of his face is also paralyzed for all the time being at least.

Totally killing it.

Now, onto road cycling and the Tour de Langkawi, where we see podium hog Riley Pickrell.

To recap, he was second on Stage 1, second on Stage 3.

He had the big win on Stage 6 and another second on the final stage, Stage 8.

Okay, I would like to finish the show this week by sending my and our very best wishes to Ronan Oge.

The Unibet Rose Rockets rider was involved in a crash at the Tour de Langkawi last week and is now in an induced coma over in Malaysia.

So the team, Unibet, released a statement to say he's currently stable and the injuries are not life-threatening, which is very relieving to hear.

But get well soon, Ronan.

Is the haze stopping you from joining fun activities or events, particularly ones that are major, that are outdoors? We are asking because this is the weekend of the confusingly but aptly named Bahrain Grand Prix weekend.

For Formula One, we've also got the Tour de Langkawi, we've also got the Standard Chartered Kale Marathon.

And so all of these things take place outdoors.

And therefore, there have been questions for participants, for people who are just going to spectate, for all of these things.

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It's 6.36 and you're listening to Talk Back Thursday with Lynn and Susan asking you tonight, is the haze stopping you from basically having fun outdoors? And in your view, should event organisers and the government be quicker to cancel events for the sake of public health? We are, of course, talking about this on the, not the eve, but, you know, with this weekend having the Kale Marathon event, Formula One, the Tour de Langkawi, so lots of big events, all of which take place outdoors.

So let us know your take.

But other than this, is there any other race that we haven't talked about, Patrick? I mean, there was Paris-Charles-Chauny won by Pavel Bitner.

We had, well, we have the Tour of Langkawi going on right now and Astana are busy point farming still.

and asian games happened uh lutsenko is now the double asian games road race and time trial champion so uh yeah that was interesting but other than that i think it's only like lower level races that we haven't really looked at before we get to rider of the week as well

yeah it was just Is the Tour of Poyang Lake still going on? It is.

He had a stage win of the Il Giro d'Abruzzo just gone a couple of weeks ago.

So yeah, a really good ride from him, but I think that pretty much covers all the lower level races.

yeah um some really interesting teams in the Tour of Langkawi as well it's definitely a strong field but anyways right out of the week in this world championship edition Patrick um I almost want to say to be a sva but uh that that seems wrong when it's the world championship obviously I'm gonna pick him because he's Danish but I'm going to go for Brendan McNulty.

I'll just put it there.