It's far far worse at mountain passes where the crowd can be opening a path right before cyclists.
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Un idiot stupide just took out half the Tour de France on the first stage
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Indeed. I was afraid he went wayy too early, but this was great. He should be able to keep the yellow for a week, especially with the lead he got.
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That is minor, they are used to that. Which again is a showcase of how brave these people are, this is still one of the sports where people regularly die.
Indeed, it is a good reminder on why I always tend to look for the 'escape' route when I go watch, like can I jump backwards? A peloton is a bit too much like a fluid, they take up all the space they can get so the least room they can find, they take.
There's always gotta be one fuckin bell end for the history books, it seems.
I hope that picture follows them around the internet forever and always.
I hope that picture follows them around the internet forever and always.
"To be continued"
Fucking hell this pisses me the hell off. Literally on the street, not a care in the fucking world. Could legit imagine she'd ignore anything short of someone grabbing her hood and pulling her down.
Congrats on becoming today's main character on Twitter though.
Was that sign made of something stronger than cardboard? I would think that you could blow right through it without falling...
It most likely caused the biker to suddenly stop causing the chain crash.
Believe he tried to swipe away at it and lost his balance bad.
Agree that any slight change in speed or direction would cause a chain crash, but looking at the video it looked like he hit a metal sign. Oh well. Sucks for all involved, time for fan containment.
I've been watching tours and classics for ten+ years and I never stop yelling at those people even though it's literally me yelling at a TV hours after the race is over.
Props to the guy for making the sport interesting. On a serious note Why are there no dividers for onlookers?
It looks like he hit the back of their arm, which was stretched behind the sign to hold it out.
Because this is a race on about 200 kilometers of public roads. You'd need 400 kilometers of those. And time has shown those things aren't exactly safe either. Some of the worst accidents in the last years are related to dividers.
They said the one that fell was part of crash 1? Wonder if the first crash played a factor here, if the bike got damaged before and just gave out at this moment.
I stopped watching it a long time ago (it was a nice way to spend hot vacation day in July, August always felt boring in comparison), but I remember the TV hosts also yelled from time to time, especially during mountain stages.
They are only used before the finish line, before a mountain pass or other importants places like that. The Tour take place in many kind of roads, many of them where there is not way they could use dividers.
And I don't think they would find the time to install and uninstall them everywhere each day.
It looked more like he did his work at the top of the pack, and then was going through the pack to rest. Which means a low tempo rider surrounded by high tempo ones.
Ugh, that's awful. What an idiot. I think people forget how quickly the cyclists are moving. I haven't seen the rest of the race yet to see what this means for any of the favorites. One problem is injuries mean it's harder to sleep, which limits recovery time.
I remember a big one on a city street in the TDF a few years ago, the idiot was leaning into the road with his camera and bang, huge crash at high speed for lots of riders.
The riders have to assume the people get out of the way in time. Not like they have anywhere to move to anyway, and they can't brake.
I remember a big one on a city street in the TDF a few years ago, the idiot was leaning into the road with his camera and bang, huge crash at high speed for lots of riders.
The riders have to assume the people get out of the way in time. Not like they have anywhere to move to anyway, and they can't brake.
Huh, really? I didn't know that. With what sort of regularity? That seems crazy.
Hell yeah I also enjoy people getting injured for doing innocuous things!
Seems clear that their arm is supporting the sign and the biker was clotheslined by the arm.
Edit: even clearer in the above close ups lol.
There are deadly and near-fatal accidents every year. Some notable accidents over the last years include the death of Bjorg Lambrecht in 2019 after crashing into a sewer drain next to the road, there was the unbelievable that it wasn't fatal accident of Fabio Jakobsen last year (which included him being catapulted over the dividers taking them down with him) and Remco Evenepoel surviving a 10 meter drop in a ravine.
These guys are so tough. They often get back on the bike with fractures, desperate to finish the day and the entire tour.
Indeed, Gilbert still finishing a race after breaking his knee and Frank Vandenbroucke still getting a top 10 finish after breaking both his wrists. Stuff like that is crazy irresponsible when you think about it.
I've been a cyclist all my life, but I'm not going to catch a ban with a proper reply to this.
I mean, these are people that don't learn their lesson despite police bikes coming up at the sides of the road so the audience has to go back. They would just step over the rope.