OT: Spectator causes massive crash in 1st stage of Tour de France
Spectator holding a sign in the road so she could get onto TV, wasn't paying attention and smacked the sign into a rider which caused a gigantic pileup involving almost every rider in the entire race and several broken bicycles. What an asshole.
Am I a bad person for laughing?
No, you're a bad person for executing your political rivals.
Other videos from other points of view make some of the riders seem like soccer players or LeBron flopping.
Nowhere close to any impact or even an obstructing rider, and they just toppled over.
I'm with Hotel.
Where exactly is the competitive value in falling off your bike in a bike race? Flopping to draw a foul in basketball or on a soccer field to get rest have a competitive motivation. Falling off your bike is significantly riskier from an injury perspective and puts you in a worse place competitively.
Who said anything about competitive value?
Hotel said it was funny. I concurred.
Now that you've made it into a value based proposition about whether it is "worth it" to flop in cycling - that makes it even funnier that they would choose to flop for no valuable reason.
Thank you.
You suggested that like soccer or basketball players they flopped. Generally in those sports people flop to gain some competitive advantage. It was probably crediting you with way more intelligence to understand that if you suggested that someone fell off their bike that had nothing to do with many riders around them losing ther balance there would be some reason better than to make you and Putin laugh.
I certainly apologize for giving you the benefit of the doubt and despite all of the evidence I have attributing you with a little bit of intelligence. I promise to try harder and not repeat that mistake.
Sigh. You apparently have a thin skin and are afraid of someone with a different perspective or opinion.
I noticed that you didn't attack Hotel for much the same opinion, and chose to attack me for God knows what reason besides what is in your head.
I am sorry that you find the Tour to be so sacrosanct that someone cannot find humor in the fact that someone DOZENS of yards away with NO ONE around him fell over for zero reason.
I am sorry that you made me look up what competitive advantage someone might have for flopping in this "sport".
Let's see - they get a restart. Dudes essentially out of competitive position "flop" so that they get a restart attributed to an actual crash.
I certainly apologize for giving you the benefit of the doubt and what "evidence" you have made you decide to attack me while also apparently being ignorant of the "competitive advantage" one could get by flopping in cycling.
I'm not going to help your ignorance by sharing the rules of the Tour - but you can certainly look them up since you are somehow so much MORE intelligent.
:)
Sigh. You apparently have a thin skin and are afraid of someone with a different perspective or opinion.
Nailed it.
The trait I fear in taco, or xtra or whatever his name is, is not his different opinion, or even his ignorance, it is his desire to infect others with misinformation on matters literally of life and death (see his comments re: climate change and covid vaccinations).
In this string, I just continue to be genuinely curious - why does he think people would intentionally fall off their bikes in a bike race? Maybe you have never had the experience, but I can assure you that even if you don’t suffer serious injury, it is quite painful and I continue to struggle to understand his explanation of what value they could get out of it? To the extent they did do it, I doubt it was a flop and more a calculation that falling was the only option they had to miss hitting a fallen biker in front of them.
Never actually watched a stage of the tour live, but generally, are people in the peloton 45 kilometers from the finish on day one of the tour really out of competitive position?
I have no problem with people with a different perspective - just struggling to understand the logic behind yours. Also, if Putin had made a ludicrous comment about flopping, I probably would have mocked him too. He just said he found someone sticking a sign in front of a biker on the tour funny.
Brand new troll account. Mods, ban this fuck.
You don't like what I have to say, so it's a troll account?
Ok, snowflake. Sorry I offended you with finding something funny that someone who apparently is a long time poster also found funny - but you do you, snowflake.
I don’t care about either of you but the argument was never about if it’s funny, “snowflake.”
One rider finished after that crash, riding with two broken elbows. That man is a dude. Another tried to finish the stage, but didn't - had four broken ribs and a collapsed lung. Sure, there are some p***ies in every sport, but these guys aren't them, and the majority aren't challenging for the overall, so they can be patient and wait for their team car to bring them a new bike, wheel, etc.
Tsk. Should’ve used ‘roids …
The sign translates to "Go Grandma and Grandpa!". Great way to make your family proud.
France's Steve Bartman.
I know, right? Still can't believe Bartman blew an extremely routine grounder for the Cubs while they were still up 3-1.
https://youtu.be/sR4r5QesGIg
Yea, what this lady did is 100x worse than Bartman. Cubs bungled that game in multiple ways. Bartman also wasn't the only one reaching for that foul. Many Cubs fans would have done exactly what he did, but he ended up the scapegoat.
10.1.1He ended up having to move out of Illinois.
So there was an upside apparently.
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2. Type: <oembed> Your link </oembed>
3. Profit
I wonder if that person can be charged for something...?
Stupidity, sadly, is still not criminalized
in fact, often celebrated and rewarded
If stupidity was a crime the majority of the US would be in prison.
I just hope she wasn't hurt.
/s
They are on a public road, and no safety barriers or responsibility enacted by the Tour.
Doubt any crime was committed unless there is a weird French bylaw specific to the Tour.
The French Steve Bartman
She will be absolutely gutted by today's events. All of her sign-making activities were well within the scope of applicable sign-making rules. All of her markers were pre-approved by the international governing body, as was the posterboard. There were monitors as she made her sign and no improper marker exchanges, as is common among her competitors. Her message was on point. She was ready. Unfortunately, she was overcome by the sheer magnitude of the event, and her performance on race-day simply left much to be desired. Ultimately, she was unable to separate herself from the peloton, where her Tour was tragically cut short by the first massive crash in Stage 1.
Well, it's nice to be able to attend sporting events again, tho, right?
Charge her with criminal stupidity even if there’s no such law on the books.
Exactly!
BTW congrats @ the 6 digit threshold Mr. Don.
Well deserved.
Unfortunately, the spectators “get involved” in the event, the vast majority unintentionally, and rarely involving the entire peloton. But idiots step in the way (especially while doing selfies), run along side and impede riders, etc. Lance went down when a spectator with a souvenir musette bag hooked his handlebars awhile back.
Amazing this hasn't happened more in the Pyrenees.
I don't understand at all why the Tour organizers allow this to continue. You plan the route; don't use narrow roads. You have connections with the local governments and can arrange for crowd control. Marathon and other road race organizers figure this out all the time. (And don't get me started on the safety planning for triathlons or other events with an open water swim.)
These are professional athletes at risk, and there are millions of euros at your disposal. Do your job!
France isn’t the US; there are lots and lots of narrow roads. City centers often go back to medieval times. Cities pay to appear in the Tour and besides, you need a place for the whole caravan of participants, sponsors, media etc to spend the night. It would be logistically difficult to only pass through places with wide roads.
You can’t compare this to a marathon where people are on their own two feet and going more slowly. 180 or so people riding together in a bunch are going to face some risk of crashing.
My favorite part about this event is the thousands of wannabees that wear jerseys, buy thousand dollar bikes, and impede traffic all over the roads where I drive. Somehow the majesty of the event doesn't make up for getting stuck behind 10 bikers on Dexter-Ann Arbor road for a mile going 25. By all means neg away, just get off the road first.
Get off my la...err, road!
10.1.1As a cyclist, let me say you should be happy they are zipping along at 25mph. That's a great pace!
Thousand dollar bikes? Shit, son; you aren't even in the ballpark of what those things cost
Right? That won't even cover a decent set of wheels!
By Michigan law, they, the cyclists, are allowed to ride side by side on that road. If they were in a single pace line, then they were being respectful of traffic. That road is a heavily used by cyclists heading to dexter and points west for long Saturday rides.
Right. Oh, you had to put on a whole costume to ride your bike five miles. Aren't you a serious little fucker. It's funny how grown-ass men still like to play dress-up. The dentists who think they are Hell's Angels on their Harleys. The guys in big trucks who think they are paramilitaries with their Molon Labe and their Punisher skulls. Shit, I've even seen hordes of dipshits in St. Ignace gathered together with their Mini-Coopers dressed like rally racers or Brits out for a day of motoring. People need to grow the fuck up
Wow. Who would've thought the big man from Thrace would be so full of rage?
Just so sick of it. Sick of it all