Spectators and mayhem at the TdF [Dr. Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge] |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 10:00 am |
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It's great that the Tour de France is enormously popular in Europe and attracts about 7.8 gazillion spectators to the route's roadsides. The only problem is that they are notoriously bad about keeping out of the way, with the unavoidable consequence that they can and indeed do have an impact on the outcome of the race itself. The eventual winner of Friday's 18th stage, Sandy Casar, crashed in the early going after an unleashed dog -- maybe a drug-sniffing canine, who knows -- ran into the road (video). Hours later, the man currently in second place in the overall standings, Cadel Evans of Australia, ran into a spectator near the finish but maintained control of his bike. Casar's tumble was, in fact, the second dog-related crash of this year's Tour. German rider Marcus Berghardt nailed a dog at about 40 km/hr in the ninth stage; I include the video below only because the rider and the dog were both okay (and the mutt, which took a seat to the head as well as a wheel to the flank, [ Full article ] |
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