On Instagram, Martin thanked his fans for their support and added a message for “all the people next to the road who think that the #tourdefrance is a circus.” His team, Jumbo-Visma, said on Twitter on Sunday that “all of our riders seem to be okay after the massive and despicable crash.”
Amid the confusion, a police vehicle crushed the bicycle of a leading competitor, Chris Froome, who then began running toward the finish line while he waited for a replacement bike to catch up with him.Īfter the pileup on Saturday, Martin was able to stay in the race.
The police said that the woman, who was wearing glasses and a yellow jacket, left the scene before investigators arrived.Īnd in a remarkable sequence of events in 2016, a swarm of spectators caused a television motorbike to stop in the cyclists’ path during Stage 12. The accident happened during the first of the race’s 21 stages, in the municipality of Saint-Cadou, according to the authorities. Before the crash, she appeared to be facing away from the racers and toward the television cameras. In a Facebook post on Saturday, the authorities in the French department of Finistère, in Brittany, asked for witnesses to help them identify the woman who held the banner, which said: “ALLEZ OPI-OMI!” - the French word for “go” along with two German terms of endearment for grandparents. That set off a cascade of collisions in the middle of the peloton, a French word meaning “ball” or “group” that also refers to a cluster of cyclists in a race. The French authorities said they were looking for an unidentified woman who held a banner along the side of the road at the Tour de France on Saturday, leading to a collision that sent dozens of cyclists tumbling to the ground.įootage from the scene shows fallen athletes in a heap of tangled legs and spinning wheels after a German rider, Tony Martin, crashed into the sign along the side of the road before falling.
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