Accidents on the Tour de France.
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Re: Accidents on the Tour de France.
Tour de France crash: Grinning fan wipes out most of peloton on stage 1 with cardboard sign
‘Don’t risk everything for a photo or to get on television!’ organisers pleaded after the pile-up
Lawrence Ostlere
26 June 2021
A spectator brandishing a cardboard banner knocked down most of the Tour de France peloton on Saturday, causing a huge crash on Stage 1 of the 2021 race.
The main bunch were around 40km from the finish of the opening stage at Landernau when Jumbo-Visma’s road captain Tony Martin collided with the sign that was waved out into the road.
Martin could do nothing to get out of the way, with a thick pack of riders on his left and a grass verge on his right, and had no choice but to ride straight into the cardboard sign. The oblivious fan had been holding up the banner, which contained a message to her grandparents, and grinning for the cameras.
First Martin’s teammates around him fell, before it spread like wildfire and about three quarters of the bunch were lying on the road in a pile of bikes and bodies. Initial reports suggested only one rider was forced to immediately abandon the Tour, the German Jasha Sutterlin (DSM).
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cyc ... 73292.html
‘Don’t risk everything for a photo or to get on television!’ organisers pleaded after the pile-up
Lawrence Ostlere
26 June 2021
A spectator brandishing a cardboard banner knocked down most of the Tour de France peloton on Saturday, causing a huge crash on Stage 1 of the 2021 race.
The main bunch were around 40km from the finish of the opening stage at Landernau when Jumbo-Visma’s road captain Tony Martin collided with the sign that was waved out into the road.
Martin could do nothing to get out of the way, with a thick pack of riders on his left and a grass verge on his right, and had no choice but to ride straight into the cardboard sign. The oblivious fan had been holding up the banner, which contained a message to her grandparents, and grinning for the cameras.
First Martin’s teammates around him fell, before it spread like wildfire and about three quarters of the bunch were lying on the road in a pile of bikes and bodies. Initial reports suggested only one rider was forced to immediately abandon the Tour, the German Jasha Sutterlin (DSM).
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cyc ... 73292.html
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