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.
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