Incidents like Saturday’s have plagued the Tour down the years, and aside from calling for caution little can be done about it
It is reasonable to assume that the spectator whose cardboard sign caused the mass crash on stage one of this year’s Tour de France had never been to a bike race before. It’s almost certain too, that she won’t ever go to a bike race again – that’s if she ever feels able to appear in public. French police are still scouring north-west France for the spectator concerned.
“The Landerneau police are investigating and we haven’t heard back from them yet,” Tour deputy director Pierre-Yves Thouault said after organisers ASO filed a lawsuit against the unidentified fan. “We are going to repeat our calls for fans to behave, through the police and our social network,” he added.
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