Le Tour de Crash: Big names come tumbling down on another day of carnage

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13. Hooligans trash the tour - throw tacks on the road - 30 punctures to leaders

fucking scumbags - Cadel Evans had 4 flats right at mountaintop 20k from finish of Stage 14 - hats off to the Wiggins team for waiting for the BMC team to catch up

"An amazing sabotage of the Tour de France saw at least 30 riders get punctures after tacks were thrown onto the road during a controversial 14th stage"

Speaking on French TV, race director Jean-Francois Pecheux also credited the Sky Team - whose leader, Bradley Wiggins, is in the yellow jersey - for encouraging the pack to not speed ahead or take advantage of the mishaps of the affected riders, including defending champion Cadel Evans.

Pecheux said the search for the culprit would be "difficult" because thousands of fans were on the roadside on the Mur de Peguere climb as the riders came by.

He said about 30 riders picked up flats over about a one-kilometre stretch.

http://www.sportsnewsfirst.com.au/articles/2012/07/16/tacks-on-the-road-cause-le-tour-chaos/


"It shows it is not necessarily what happens on the bike, the public affect the race - the race could be over for you for something as stupid as that," Wiggins said.

"No-one wants to benefit from someone else's misfortune.

"We sort this out in a physical sense on the bike.

"99 per cent are here to watch the race and love the sport ... you are always going to get a very small minority that are there to cause trouble.

"There is enough police on this route than can find these people. and send them to a football mach or something."