Tour de France: stage 16 sabotaged by protesting farmers

Not quite 30km in the day, step 16 of the Tour de France was stopped for 15 minutes after a roadside protest. Farmers rolled bales of hay on the road to shrink and a number of pbadengers needed treatment for eye problems, apparently because the police used tear gas or tear gas to attempt to control the protesters. Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome (Team Sky), Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe), Taylor Phinney (EF – Education First), Arnaud Demare (FDJ Groupama), Heinrich Haussler (United Arab Emirates), Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain Merida ), Omar Fraile (Astana), Rory Sutherland (United Arab Emirates) and Daniele Martinez (EF-Education First) were among those grouped around the medical car at the back of the field, receiving bottles of water to flush out their visibly puffy eyes. [19659003NopeoplewerewoundedbytheballsthatwereinvolvedinthecrashattheincidentThefarmerswereapparentlydemonstratingrecentchangesintheso-calleddisadvantagedanddifficulttobreedregions