Accidents on the Tour de France.

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Another accident caused by spectators. Every year you see idiots dressed up for their 2 seconds of fame running alongside the cyclists or tipping water on their heads.

Chris Froome’s crash was accident waiting to happen due to Tour’s growth.

The chaos on the road was followed by confusion among race officials over the yellow jersey and it all stemmed from the latest in a long series of incidents in which spectators and race vehicles have affected the race, sometimes to far more dangerous effect – the gendarme wielding a camera who brought down the bunch sprint at Armentières in 1994 and the television car that took out Johnny Hoogerland and Juan-Antonio Flecha in 2011, to mention only two.
The background issues are complex: a sport held on open roads that is uniquely vulnerable to outside interference, where over succeeding years more and more fans have taken to running as close to the riders as they can, ignoring constant pleas to keep clear, as recently as last Saturday from Froome himself. For years there have been complaints the Tour is getting too big for its own good – and that of the men who risk their lives to race it – and this will merely accentuate the debate...
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Chris Froome ready for the big win tomorrow:
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yeah lets not talk about the riders doing drugs and shit
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The organisers moved the finish line 6 miles down the road because of high winds and didn't bother putting barriers in place. You can't blame the spectators for crowding the road when they are bunched up by closures and there are no barriers.

The crowd is part of the attraction of the tour anyway- I like the ones in fancy dress- and it is the organisers responsibility to control them.

How many incidents are caused by members of the crowd anyway? Riders have been knocked down by team and official cars and have had to dodge pet dogs and livestock on occasion.
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This years Tour de France has started, and already a bad crash on the fourth day...

Peter Sagan disqualified after clash that may have ended Mark Cavendish’s Tour
4 July 2017
The world champion, Peter Sagan, was thrown out of the Tour de France for a dangerous move in the sprint finish at the end of stage four that left Mark Cavendish’s future in the race hanging by a thread after a horrendous crash 200 metres from the finish line.

Cavendish sustained a heavy cut to his hand and was taken to hospital for x-rays to investigate possible injuries to the shoulder he damaged in a similar pile-up at the end of the first stage of the Tour in Harrogate in July 2014. In a chaotic finale, the yellow jersey holder, Geraint Thomas, also fell – but to no ill effect.

Cavendish’s sporting director at Dimension Data, Roger Hammond, described the move that led to Sagan’s expulsion as “a flick of the elbow which was completely outrageous”. He added: “No one comes out of it well. This is a sad, sad day for the sport, Sagan is a hero and an idol of mine but a precedent has to be set.”...

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Sunday, 9 July 2017. Eleven more "fallers" today on the Tour.

- Chris Froome will ride the rest of the Tour without both his first lieutenant Geraint Thomas and close friend and principal rival Richie Porte after the Welshman and Australian were forced to quit the race following slippery descents which turned the ninth stage into a chaotic demolition derby from Nantua to Chambéry. Froome retained the yellow jersey after the stage was won by the Colombian Rigoberto Urán.

The day’s official medical bulletin listed 11 fallers with a range of classic crash injuries: a shoulder dislocation and punctured lung for Manuele Mori, a broken vertebra for Robert Gesink, a dislocated kneecap for Jesús Herrada, who was announced as having abandoned but finished the stage. The 2016 King of the Mountains, Rafal Majka, was blamed for the Thomas crash and ended up with deep abrasions to both knees and elbows...
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Richie Porte's horror crash prompts questions of Tour de France organisers
10 July 2017
Rather than settling for a typical summit finale, ASO opted for the stage’s fourth technical descent and a finish in Chambéry.

After an enthralling climb up Mont du Chat near the Swiss border, during which Porte threatened to ride away from primary rival Chris Froome on several occasions, the Australian began a long downhill section. Travelling at over 70 kilometres an hour on damp roads, Porte lost control approaching a bend and momentarily travelled off the bitumen. His flailing body careened back across the road and into a rock face, where Porte collided with the bike of Irishman Daniel Martin. The later diagnosis of shoulder and pelvis fractures are miraculous. This crash could have caused far worse...
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Mystery indeed as the Australian champion Rohan Dennis withdraws from the epic Tour de France without explanation.

Mystery surrounds Rohan Dennis's shock withdrawal from Tour de France
Fri 19 Jul 2019 01.09 BST

World time-trial champion Rohan Dennis has wished his teammates well for the rest of the Tour de France but offered no insight as to why he quit the race dramatically, a day before a stage the Australian was fancied to win.

The time-trial specialist stopped at a feed zone 80km into Thursday’s 12th stage when it was announced that he would be withdrawing from the race. He disappeared for several hours, prompting his team, Bahrain-Merida, to issue a statement on Twitter raising concerns over the 29-year-old’s “welfare”.

He later turned up at the Bahrain-Merida bus at the finish line but left the bus with his agent and a team media officer, refusing to talk to the waiting media.

The team later said the rider made the decision “reluctantly” but offered no further clarity as to why he pulled out. Nor did Dennis when he eventually issued a statement and said he was “very disappointed” to leave the race at this point, but stopped short of giving an explanation.

“Obviously the individual time trial tomorrow had been a big goal for me and the team, but given my current feeling it was the right decision to withdraw earlier today,” Dennis said.

“I wish my teammates the very best for the remainder of the race and would like to thank all the Tour de France fans who cheered for me, at home and on the roadside, since Brussels. I will hopefully be back competing in this great race again over the coming seasons.”

Amid the initial confusion, Bahrain-Merida sports director Gorazd Stangelj had said he was “confused” and “disappointed” that Dennis, who won the Tour of Switzerland time trial last month, had quit.

“We actually expected a big effort from him tomorrow,” Stangelj said. “It was his decision today to stop in the feed zone. We tried to speak with him. He said, ‘I don’t want to talk’ and just abandoned the race.

“His condition is not bad, he’s good enough to perform at the Tour de France. For sure it has nothing to do with his condition.”
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