Motos and the Perils of the TdF

I am sitting here this morning watching the British Open, doing some blogging, answering email, and, most importantly, following the Tour de France “queen” mountain stage via Cyclingnew.com live updates. The most recent entry was the following, which is definitely the sort of thing that only happens during the Tour:

17:08 CEST    202km/3.5km to go
Rasmussen now rides away from Vinokourov. He might be able to save his third place on GC from Ullrich. Admittedly, the German will blow him away on the final time trial.

Pereiro and Hincapie are chased by a mad fan, who gets run over by a TV moto. Ouch. The TV moto gets up again, and hopefully the spectator is ok. [Emphasis added]

While the preceding is amusing — where else except maybe in the Running of the Bulls would a spectator get run over?  — it seems inevitable that one day a rabid spectator will again influence the outcome of the TdF (which has happened).

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