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July 21, 2018 09:52:08
A spectator threw a smoke bomb into the Tour de France peloton as it pbaded through on Friday.
Nobody is hurt. Unlike Thursday, when the strap of a fan seemed to hang Vincenzo Nibali's handlebars at Alpe d'Huez, he slammed and broke a vertebra.
Incidents have made some teams fear that fans are out of control. "The organizers need to think about something, or put more barriers," said Paolo Slongo Friday, Nibali's coach with the Bahrain-Mérida team,
. problem, and it gets bigger and bigger We need to find something to solve it. "
The Nibali crash occurred in a cloud of yellow smoke fired by the spectators, with two police motorcycles no more than two lengths apart. bike in front of the stage managers. De France was afraid that something was going to happen to Froome in this last climb and that's why they were so close to the riders, "said Rik Verbrugghe, sports director of Bahrain-Mérida.
During the 2016 Tour, Froome had to leave Ventoux when his motorcycle was mutilated in an accident involving two other motorcyclists and a police motorcycle
Attitude towards Froome and his team Sky a recently lost his composure when the quadruple Tour champion was involved in an asthma-related drug case of the Spanish Vuelta of last year – even though he was cleared a few days before the start of the Tour, hoot and whistle At Froome, throughout the race and with the large number of spectators lined up on the 21 hairpin bends of Alpe d'Huez, Sky spoke of safety for Froome during of the climb with the organizers
. s months and months of waiting [for the anti-doping case to end] fueled the suspicion and wreaked havoc, "said race director Christian Prudhomme, who informed Team Sky that Froome was The fans also booed by Geraint Thomas, the Sky pilot who became the first cyclist in the history of the Tour to win the victory over Huez wearing the yellow jersey.
"As a Frenchman I am ashamed," said Nicolas Portal, Director of Sky Sports
Nibali, Tour champion 2014, was fourth overall and one of the few to have seemed able to challenge Thomas and Froome – who sit 1-2 – for the title. [19659005"Itwasreallylateyesterdaythathewasonthevergeofthestage"pronouncedSlongo
Slongo said that Nibali will rest for 15 days and will seek to return for the Spanish Vuelta in August.
Franco Pellizotti, a Nibali teammate and the oldest of the Tour at age 40, noted that incidents with fans on Alpe d'Huez are not new – as when Giuseppe Guerini is mounted as a spectator taking a photo in the middle of the road in 1999. [19659005Fansquickampinghomeforweatherweeksbeforethecoursecreateagreatmospherewhich"isbestfairfestbuttouwouldaddiscovercoureurs"saidPellizotticesfansweregrudelymotorways
"But unfortunately, sometimes the party becomes excessive and yesterday there were many drunk people. [19659005"Itdoesnottakemuchtoknockdownarider"
Sagan resumes sprinting on stage 13
Peter Sagan won his third stage of this Tour de France , Geraint Thomas retained his lead over teammate Chris Froome on Friday
World champion Sagan won a sprint of one wheel length to win stage 13, a 169.5 kilometer stage of Bourg d'Oisans in Valencia in less than four hours.
Thomas took the lead with impressive wins at the top of the previous two days.
The Welsh Sky driver did not have a hard time retaining his minute advantage, 39 seconds over defending champion Froome on the flat lap that came after three grueling days in the Alps.
The two Team Sky drivers finished safe in the pack with their best rivals.
Tom Dumoulin remained third overall 50 behind. Primoz Roglic was fourth at 2:46 and Romain Bardet was fifth at 3:07.
Sagan was perfectly successful, replacing Alexander Kristoff and Arnaud Demare, third at the finish line.
The 12th victory of the Slovakian career came after dominating the sprints at the end of stages 2 and 5.
This time, Sagan faced a squad of high-level sprinters who had been greatly exhausted by the mountains. Fernando Gaviria and Dylan Groenewegen, both winners of this Tour, as well as André Greipel all gave up the race on Thursday, while the 30-stage winners Mark Cavendish and Marcel Kittel missed the time on Wednesday
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