Portrait David Loosli - Streckenplanung Tour de Suisse - video Dailymotion

Tour de Suisse

Im Portrait-Video erzählt er über die Herausforderungen der Streckenplanung und die Arbeit des Sicherheitsdispositivs während der Tour de Suisse.

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00:00 I'm David Losli, the Sports Director of Tour de Suisse.

00:03 A tour planning always starts a year in advance.

00:07 When a tour is almost finished, it goes on seamlessly.

00:10 The planning of the next route starts immediately.

00:15 The basic idea is to have a stage location.

00:17 That's the basic structure of a Tour de Suisse route,

00:20 that you have all the stages.

00:22 Then I start to connect the stages.

00:26 I try to make the route as attractive as possible,

00:30 with mountains, for sprinters and time trial riders.

00:33 But the main goal is to have stages.

00:37 There are many challenges in the route planning.

00:44 We need the approval of all the cantons,

00:47 of many municipalities and the cantonal police.

00:50 We have to make sure that we don't have too many tracks,

00:53 or that we don't have too many lines.

00:58 We also have to avoid the motorway,

01:01 so that we don't have to make in- and out-routes.

01:04 There are many things that I have to consider in the planning.

01:08 Sometimes there are many options,

01:11 but sometimes you're not exactly on one road,

01:14 and you have to find a way to make it work.

01:17 The character of a Tour de Suisse is always a tough race.

01:21 We are in Switzerland, a mountainous country.

01:25 Even the flat stages sometimes have 2,000 meters of altitude.

01:29 That's a lot.

01:31 We want to be able to present our mountains and the passes.

01:37 That's what we like to show and what makes Tour de Suisse special.

01:42 There are destinations where I deliberately take a mountain before we arrive.

01:49 There are too many overhanging islands and small circles

01:55 over the last few kilometers.

01:57 I don't want to be responsible for 160 farms coming together.

02:02 That's why there are stages where we say,

02:05 "We'll make it so difficult that only half of it will be there."

02:09 Then we'll arrive safely.

02:11 We have to take that into account.

02:12 Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,

02:19 sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty.

02:21 My task during the Tour de Suisse is to ensure safety.

02:25 That means coordinating with the cantonal police and our security personnel

02:30 so that everything works, so that everyone is on post when they have to.

02:36 Sometimes there are short-term adjustments or reminders

02:39 on some holes in the road that we don't know of yet

02:43 or other dangerous places.

02:45 We have to make sure that we can keep the route as safe as possible

02:49 even during the race or even hours before the race.

02:53 If the pass should be closed, we have a plan B at these stages.

03:00 We know what we would like to do if one pass was closed.

03:04 There are already careful explanations with the police in advance

03:08 whether that would be possible at all.

03:10 But we didn't plan it to that extent.

03:12 It's really very fast.

03:14 There were times when we had to look for a new route within 48 hours.

03:19 We are of course well aware of the cantonal police and the cantonal police,

03:24 especially that they are involved.

03:25 That has always worked very well in recent years.

03:28 We have a military that supports us.

03:32 There are hundreds of people a day who go to secure the former road

03:38 and make sure that no cars come on the track.

03:40 We have over 50 motorcycle drivers, especially from the police,

03:45 who accompany the trotter and drive ahead.

03:48 They make sure that nothing comes in the way

03:51 or that something can't get out of a gap in a parking lot

03:54 and get on the race track.

03:56 This is our safety device that drives through Switzerland in a rolling way.

04:03 The road is closed for 10 minutes to the Bassenwagen.

04:08 It's a relatively short time, but it's been working very well in recent years.

04:14 (Music)

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Portrait David Loosli - Streckenplanung Tour de Suisse

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