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think they should employ Didi for crowd control- electrify his trident and give him free reign to punish infringements
At 25:30, I was reminded of this one on the highlights last night - guy in the number 10 shirt had been annoying folk all afternoon running up and down as the riders came through (twice). Quite a few were having words with him but didn't seem to make any difference.
Had a smile to myself when I got home and watched the recording.
In recent years we’ve seen race changing incidents with Vincenzo Nibali and Primoz Roglic, both getting whacked out of position by a camera and large cardboard ‘message’.
Yesterday with Sepp Kuss and Nathan Van Hooydonc didn’t change the race but it could have been so much worse.
Merckx got punched by a fan in 1975 during the Puy De Dome stage.
Motorbike taken out by the crowd 🙄
Was it? or did it stall and they were trying to move it?
Damn those Victorian ladies!
I thought it stalled and they were trying to move it too.
Motorbike taken out by the crowd 🙄
proper lol at that pic, everything about it is just brilliant
Agreed, but it would be less brilliant if the dickhead got squished by the Skoda that's following about 3m behind.
The only people whose opinion really matters in this is the riders and they seem ok with it so..
There have always been big crowds, runners and mishaps but now there are more ****ers who just want to be on telly.
papamountain
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The only people whose opinion really matters in this is the riders and they seem ok with it so.
Do you think any of them want to be known as the rider who said "They're all c***s and need shooting by UCI snipers in the helicopter"?
Or do you think they'll give some bland response and keep the team PR people and fans onside and not get bottles of piss thrown at them?
Geraint Thomas calls one of them a 'kn*bhead' on the recent Netflix TdF documentary.
So according to Escape Collective there was Van De Velde on a Moto. Voeckler on a Moto. Shimano car. Directors car. Unkown amount of video camera bikes (may have been just behind thogh). No doubt at least one still camera bikes.
Definitely just the fans fault though!
https://escapecollective.com/everyone-everywhere-all-at-once/
So most of the incidents that have affected the GC battle have been vehicle not fan related. So maybe me watching at home is causing as many problems as spectators on the road?
Not sure why posters above are blaming fans for the stalled motorbike yesterday
From what I can see the fan thing has got worse because of the selfie problem. The rest send unchanged since the 1980s when I started watching
Anyone else see the fella chuck a 'cup' full of liquid right in Gaudu's face? At least the bloke with the pizza just offered it to O'Connor (looked nice too 😀)
Yeah, Gaudu's stunned reaction was something else.
That pizza looked top-notch; just goes to show how hard O'Connor must've gone to be in no place to take a slice. Could practically hear Sean Kelly salivating.
So most of the incidents that have affected the GC battle have been vehicle not fan related.
Most of them have been motorbike riders choosing not to run over people blocking their path. Perhaps that should change?
The pizza chef running beside Ben O’connor had me in stitches.
Really? Too bad Ben didn't have time to stop and lamp him. Idiot.
So most of the incidents that have affected the GC battle have been vehicle not fan related.
Most of them have been motorbike riders choosing not to run over people blocking their path. Perhaps that should change?
Or as we've not actually seen (well I haven't) what happened the Moto may have been going so slow because the riders it was following was going so slow it stalled/fell over. Not the fans fault.
You know how wide a motorbike is (even lying on its side) and how wide a mountain road is.
The fans decided to crowd the moto rather than clear a path for the pursuing riders.
Really? Too bad Ben didn’t have time to stop and lamp him. Idiot.
I'd be surprised if Ben even noticed him. He'd done a massive turn up the lower slopes, a lot of work in the breakaway before (and it all paid off because Felix Gall got a stage win as impressive as Pidcock's win up Alpe d'Huez last year).
Bet Ben was cross-eyed with exhaustion at the point he pulled off, he did the classic thing of sitting on the front until he could give no more, pulled off and absolutely parked up.
Plus riders aren't allowed to take offered food in case it's been spiked. Rule 1, you never ever take bottles, food etc from anyone other than official team staff. At anti-doping control, there must be multiple sealed bottles of water and the athlete has to choose their own; AD staff, chaperones etc are not allowed to offer them a bottle, the athlete has to select it from a choice.
You know how wide a motorbike is (even lying on its side) and how wide a mountain road is.
The fans decided to crowd the moto rather than clear a path for the pursuing riders.
Double width bike path and there was a car stuck. How were they going to clear a path wide enough?
From article above
Still, it took race officials to really make things go pear-shaped. According to Vande Velde, “the red car tried to pass us inside. And now everyone’s completely blocked. If he were to just pull behind us, there’s an alleyway for everyone to go up.”
Heat of the moment panic sets in. Just ask Jumbo DS's about that...
Voeckler was fined for the motor bike incident
Rule 1, you never ever take bottles, food etc from anyone other than official team staff.
What was cosnefroy drinking when he joined his fans on the joux plane?
https://twitter.com/Julientrivero/status/1680242366681063424