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The Pros and Cons of Strava Leaderboards

In Strava, there are segments which are descending segments. There has been cases of people trying to get queens and queens of the mountains on these Strava segments and actually dying in the process of doing that. I do think there should be something on Strava which limits segment leaderboards on segments where there are big descents. The existence of leaderboards even if it's not a real competition, still incentivizes the risk-taking behaviour.

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