Are viewers responsible for the Nibali tour?

For Vincenzo Nibali painfully finishes the 105th Tour de France with a vertebral fracture at the 12th stage. The fourth in the general must abandon the race after a fall whose cause remains uncertain.

A Tour de France without a visit to Alpe d'Huez is like a soup without salt. Hundreds of thousands of people prove the legendary climb into the Alps on Thursday and have created a good atmosphere. In the fatal accident of Vincenzo Nibali, however, it seems that a fan has exaggerated.

In the hectic final of the 13.8-kilometer final stage, the group around Leader Geraint Thomas was in the narrow line of many spectators following the persecution of Frenchman Romain Bardet when he crashed and Nibali 4 km before arrival suddenly land on the ground. "I do not know what happened, there were two speeded Froome police motorcycles, I drove it, then suddenly slowed down everything and I crashed," said the player. 33-year-old Bahrain-Merida team.

Although Nibali was able to finish the stage and finish in 7th place, the winner of the 2014 Tour had to declare late Thursday night for the 13th round of Friday 's Package. A visit to the hospital in Grenoble confirmed the suspicion of a vertebral fracture

Video images relieve the burden of motorcyclists

The culprit of the quadruple winner of the Grand Tour obviously does not wear the driver of the bike, like video footage proves now. On the contrary, he should have been a spectator on the side of the road, who shot down the "Hai of Messina".

Nibali would not be the first driver who was jostled to the climb to L'Alpe d'Huez by a spectator. In 1999, Giuseppe Guerini almost lost his stage victory because of a careless spectator. The Italian was knocked over about a kilometer from the finish by a fan who wanted to take a picture, but was able to get up immediately and left terrified.

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