Without signalmen no course, but they are increasingly difficult to find: "Who wants to be scolded for 25 euros and a pistolet?”

In Spain, Catholics will soon be celebrating their Semana Santa, here racing enthusiasts already have the Flemish Cycling Week: seven days of religion, tradition and folk festival in one, with a high mass as the pinnacle, the Tour of Flanders. The future of that holy week, and of all cycling, hangs by a thread: the dying breed of the signalman.

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