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Spectator causes multi-rider crash on Tour de France stage 15

Peloton held up 50km into mountain stage by second mass crash in as many days

Multiple riders fall during the mass crash on stage 15 of the Tour de France

The Tour de France peloton has been held up by a second mass crash in as many stages after multiple riders fell following a collision with a spectator at the side of the road.

The spectator in question appeared to stick their arm out just as the peloton, led by Jumbo-Visma, was passing through a narrowing in the road with 128km to run on stage 15. Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) was caught, going down and leaving numerous riders behind him with nowhere to go.

Riders including Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Kevin Vermaerke (Team dsm-firmenich), Lars van den Berg (Groupama-FDJ) Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers), Pascal Eenkhoorn (Lotto-Dstny) went down in the crash, though all riders caught in the fall were back up and riding shortly afterwards.

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Jumbo-Visma rider Nathan Van Hooydonck went down heavily, hitting the ground hard after hitting Kuss. The Belgian sat on the ground for some time before getting up and riding again, with the race medical report saying he was treated for multiple wounds on the back.

Shortly after the crash, the peloton, which was previously at 40 seconds from the leading breakaway riders, slowed down as part of a self-neutralisation to allow those affected to get back on.

As riders caught in the crash got back on over the next 10km, the gap to the break grew out over four minutes.

There were no further abandons at the Tour de France on stage 15 as a result of the crash, with all riders continuing on towards Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc, where Wout Poels took a solo stage victory. Still a number of riders will be carrying injuries into the rest day as a result of the crash. There was also another later in the stage, with break riders Krists Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech) and Chris Hamilton (dsm-firmenich) coming down on a descent. Both continued on to complete the stage, with Hamilton commenting that he'd have some easy days before trying for the break again, while Israel-Premier Tech said Neilands only suffered "superficial wounds" in his crash and was ready to continue on after the rest day.

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Tour de France team consider legal action after fan causes crash

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The team of the Tour de France leader, Jonas Vingegaard, are considering pressing charges after a spectator caused a massive crash during the 15th stage to Saint-Gervais Mont‑Blanc on Sunday.

One of the defending champion’s key Jumbo-Visma teammates, the American climber Sepp Kuss, crashed after being caught by the outstretched arm of a fan as the peloton raced past. Kuss’s fall caused a domino effect through the peloton with multiple other riders also hitting the tarmac, in echoes of a similar incident caused by a fan with a placard, endured by the same team in the 2021 race.

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According to Reuters, the gendarmerie have identified the individual but will not arrest them unless Kuss wishes to take matters further. However, a spokesperson for Jumbo-Visma said: “The team might. We’ll find out how and when.”

The weekend’s stages were marked by several incidents involving race motorbikes and overexcited spectators. On Saturday, media motorbikes were slowed and hemmed in by large crowds at the top of the Col de Joux Plane and, as well as the mass fall on Sunday, the Latvian rider Krists Neilands also crashed while taking a drink from an in-race motorbike on a fast Alpine descent.

Team Cofidis were one of those to tell spectators that they “don’t need a cellphone to make memories”. However, the Tour de France entered into a new partnership with the social media giant TikTok shortly before this year’s race began and has actively encouraged fans to create content.

In a press release from 22 June, Julien Goupil, the media and partnerships director for the Tour promoter, ASO, described TikTok as a “perfect match” for the Tour and said “the content created at the roadside will enhance existing coverage and bring the public together around the event even more widely”.

Conscious of the need for a younger demographic of fans and influencers, the Tour has been seeking to attract a new audience for several years and is itself extremely active on social media. Selfie sticks, phones and even rogue drones are also commonplace at the roadside, despite the Tour’s best efforts to limit any interference in the racing.

But this is an impossible task. The Tour de France is a free, unticketed event that draws hundreds of thousands to the roadside, especially when it arrives in the mountains, where sleep-deprived fans camp out for days on end, living on a diet of sunshine, cheap beer and not-so-fine wines.

In reality, it is a health and safety nightmare and has been so for more than a century. The most renowned climb for spectator interaction is the hair-pinned ascent to Alpe d’Huez, where organised chaos somehow prevails as the riders pass through the sea of partying fans.

When Giuseppe Guerini broke clear of the peloton and climbed towards a career-best victory on the prestigious stage to the Alpe in July 1999, he didn’t expect to be brought down by a bespectacled 19-year-old wielding an Instamatic camera. But the Italian rider hadn’t reckoned with Eric, surname unknown, standing motionless in the middle of the most famous climb in cycling, waiting to click his shutter. The pair collided, Guerini fell, then got to his feet, received a push from the hapless Eric, yet carried on to win the stage.

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More recently, in 2016, the planned finish at the top of Mont Ventoux was aborted because of high winds at the summit and the finish line brought much lower down the mountain to Chalet Reynard. Thousands of spectators moved to the new finish line, and overcrowding caused a blockade of fans, motorbikes and fallen riders including the race leader, Chris Froome, who, with his team car blocked by the throng, opted to jog most of the remaining distance.

Such incidents are as old as the Tour itself. Tacks on the road, dogs and sometimes even horses blocking the path of riders, while brawling partisan fans trying to sabotage a rival and protesters – ranging from farmers, to fisherman and climate activists – are all part of the Tour’s history. Only a massive police presence, a huge investment in crowd barriers and the increased awareness of occasional cycling fans, rather than diehards, will eradicate the problem.

Meanwhile the duel in the sun, between Vingegaard and his closest rival, Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates, who are separated by only 10 seconds, resumes on Tuesday in the 22.4km time trial from Passy to Combloux, at the foot of Mont Blanc.

It has also been confirmed that Vingegaard, whether he becomes Tour champion or not, will not be racing for Denmark in the Glasgow-based UCI world championships in August.

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Tour de France teams ask fans to behave better after mass pileup in 15th stage

Belgium's Nathan van Hooydonck crashed during the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 179 kilometers (111 miles) with start in Les Gets Les Portes du Soleil and finish in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc, France, Sunday, July 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Belgium’s Nathan van Hooydonck crashed during the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 179 kilometers (111 miles) with start in Les Gets Les Portes du Soleil and finish in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc, France, Sunday, July 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

A rider lies on the tarmac after a crash in the pack during the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 179 kilometers (111 miles) with start in Les Gets Les Portes du Soleil and finish in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc, France, Sunday, July 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Doctors tend to Belgium’s Nathan van Hooydonck who crashed during the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 179 kilometers (111 miles) with start in Les Gets Les Portes du Soleil and finish in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc, France, Sunday, July 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

France’s Adrien Petit bears the marks of a crash as celebrates his most combative rider award of the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 179 kilometers (111 miles) with start in Les Gets Les Portes du Soleil and finish in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc, France, Sunday, July 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar, wearing the best young rider’s white jersey, , Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, and Spain’s Carlos Rodriguez climb during the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 179 kilometers (111 miles) with start in Les Gets Les Portes du Soleil and finish in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc, France, Sunday, July 16, 2023. (Etienne Garnier/Pool Photo via AP)

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SAINT-GERVAIS MONT-BLANC, France (AP) — Tour de France overall leader Jonas Vingegaard is calling on fans to behave better at cycling’s biggest race after another mass crash marred the 15th stage on Sunday.

“I’d like to tell the spectators to enjoy the race and be there to cheer for us without standing on the road or pouring beers on us,” Vingegaard said. “Please, just enjoy the race.”

The Danish rider leads Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia by only 10 seconds with the race about to enter its final week.

The incident, which involved around two dozen riders, led to appeals from several teams at the Tour.

“Please be careful. So that the party remains a party for the riders, but also for you. You don’t need a cell phone to create mind-blowing memories,” the Cofidis team said amid unverified reports that the spectator who caused the crash was taking a selfie.

The Ineos Grenadiers team said “please give the riders room to race.”

A day after a big pileup forced several riders to abandon, the latest accident occurred after 52 kilometers (32 miles) when a spectator on the side of the road inadvertently touched American rider Sepp Kuss — a key teammate of Vingegaard — and sent him to the ground.

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Fans gathering on the sides of roads and in villages as riders pass by is part of the tradition — and charm — of the Tour, but many spectators can take too many risks, including when they run alongside riders in mountain ascents.

Jumbo-Visma said Dylan van Baarle and Nathan van Hooydonck were among those who hit the tarmac on Sunday. Vingegaard was riding close to his teammates but escaped unscathed.

“The team felt pretty good today, although we of course had this crash that affected some of my teammates,” Vingegaard said.

Organizers also asked fans to “pay attention to the riders” after the incident which did not lead to any withdrawals.

Two years ago, a spectator brandishing a large cardboard sign while leaning into the path of oncoming riders led to a massive pileup during the opening stage.

Dutch veteran Wout Poels soloed to victory Sunday after the tough trek in the Alps.

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Tour de France won't press charges against woman who caused crash

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A cycling fan who caused a huge pileup on the opening day of the Tour de France on Saturday handed herself in to police in Brittany this week, but was to likely avoid prosecution as the Tour organizers decided not to press charges.

The woman leaned out into the road in front of the lead pack, holding up a homemade banner for the TV cameras and not looking out for the riders.

German competitor Tony Martin rode right into the banner and was knocked over. He fell sideways, toppling the rider beside him and setting off a domino effect that left most of the pack on the ground or at a standstill behind them.

At least 21 cyclists were injured, including four-time champion Chris Froome of Britain.

GREAT TO SEE SPECTATORS BACK INVOLVED IN SPORTS EH pic.twitter.com/Kwxj8be2Qh — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) June 26, 2021

Police did not name the woman, who was in custody on Wednesday. However, local media said she was a 30-year-old Frenchwoman. At first it was thought she was German because her homemade banner was a mix of French and German: "Allez opi omi" or "Go grandpa, grandma."

The woman fled the scene but police appealed to the public for information about her identity after the Tour organizers, ASO, said they would bring a lawsuit against her for involuntarily causing injury through reckless behavior — a charge that carries a $1,770 fine. 

On Thursday, however the ASO said it no longer wanted to press charges, in a bid to calm the situation, but they reminded fans to keep away from the riders.

Elaine Cobbe is a CBS News correspondent based in Paris. A veteran journalist with more than 20 years of experience covering international events, Cobbe reports for CBS News' television, radio and digital platforms.

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Cyclist Gino Mäder, 26, dies after a high-speed crash in the Swiss Alps

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Team Bahrain cyclist Gino Mäder of Switzerland died after suffering a terrible crash in the Tour de Suisse. He's seen here at the 2021 Giro d'Italia road race, wearing the blue jersey signifying the best climber. Dario Belingheri/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Team Bahrain cyclist Gino Mäder of Switzerland died after suffering a terrible crash in the Tour de Suisse. He's seen here at the 2021 Giro d'Italia road race, wearing the blue jersey signifying the best climber.

Swiss cyclist Gino Mäder died Friday, one day after suffering a terrible crash during a mountain descent in stage 5 of the Tour de Suisse. Both Mäder and another racer, Magnus Sheffield of the U.S., were taken to the hospital after they were hurled into a ravine in the Swiss Alps.

Mäder, 26, crashed during the "queen stage" of the race — the label given to a multistage road race's most challenging and grueling days, which usually involve multiple ascents and test even the strongest riders.

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After reaching the Albula Pass at a height just under 7,600 feet, Mäder and other riders faced a roughly 10-kilometer descent , racing down to the stage's finish line. In that segment, a motorcycle camera unit following the race leader clocked speeds of around 100 kph (62 mph).

It's not known precisely what led to the crash; TV broadcasts of the race didn't seem to catch the moment that sent the two riders off the road. "The circumstances of the accident are being clarified," race organizers said on Thursday.

After Mäder's death, the Graubünden cantonal police said on Friday that it is investigating the crash, along with the public prosecutor's office. The police issued a call for witnesses to come forward, particularly if they have video evidence.

The crash came in a high-speed portion of the course

During the descent, the two riders "crashed at very high speed," race organizers said. Another rider, Roland Thalmann, described the scene.

"After a long curve, two bikes were lying on the side of the road, which didn't look nice," Thalmann said, according to Cycling News . "When I looked back, I saw that two riders were quite far down."

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Paint outlines of what look to be two tire tracks leading off the road at the curve where Swiss rider Gino Mäder fell during a high-speed descent of the fifth stage of the Tour de Suisse. Mäder, 26, died from injuries he sustained when he plunged into a ravine. Arnd Wiegmann/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Paint outlines of what look to be two tire tracks leading off the road at the curve where Swiss rider Gino Mäder fell during a high-speed descent of the fifth stage of the Tour de Suisse. Mäder, 26, died from injuries he sustained when he plunged into a ravine.

"The race doctor was on the scene of the accident within two minutes," organizers said. Dr. Roland Kretsch found Sheffield, 21, responsive, with a concussion and bruises. Mäder was in far worse condition in a creek, as he "lay motionless in the water," according to organizers.

The medical team was able to resuscitate Mäder, and he was airlifted to a hospital. Kretsch later told SRF that the cyclists were found far below the roadway, and that Mäder had injuries to his head area.

Mäder's death stuns the cycling world

"Our entire team is devastated by this tragic accident, and our thoughts and prayers are with Gino's family and loved ones during this incredibly difficult time," Mäder's cycling squad, Team Bahrain Victorious, said as it announced his death.

"Today and every day, we ride for you, Gino," the team said.

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An aerial photo from June 16, 2023, shows the curve where Swiss rider Gino Mäder crashed during a high-speed descent in the Tour de Suisse. Arnd Wiegmann/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

An aerial photo from June 16, 2023, shows the curve where Swiss rider Gino Mäder crashed during a high-speed descent in the Tour de Suisse.

After the tragic news emerged, cyclists rode an extremely shortened sixth stage of the Tour de Swiss as a memorial to Mäder, with organizers saying the peloton, or main pack of cyclists, would ride only the final 20 kilometers of the planned course under "neutralized" conditions, meaning competition is suspended.

At Friday's finish line, a large crowd turned out to applaud Mäder's six teammates as they crossed the finish line together.

🇨🇭 #Tourdesuisse In honour of Gino! @tds #RideAsOne pic.twitter.com/3jX6WD4BFq — Team Bahrain Victorious (@BHRVictorious) June 16, 2023

The new plan followed another last-minute change, after an avalanche blocked Friday's planned route in the mountains.

In 2021, Mäder won the best young cyclist's white jersey at La Vuelta, Spain's 21-stage race. He took fifth place in that race — the same spot he earned earlier this year, in the eight-day Paris-Nice race.

The Tour de Suisse isn't one of road cycling's three "Grand Tour" races, but with eight stages and plenty of high mountains, it's widely seen as a key tune-up for the Tour de France in July.

Race course layout is put under scrutiny

After Thursday's crash, Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel, the reigning world champion, criticized the race course's layout, as he sent his hopes for recovery to riders who crashed.

I hope all the guys that were involved in a crash are okay!! 🙏🏻❤️ I hope that the final of today's stage is food for thought for both cycling organisers as well as ourselves as riders. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/UZm6sRwiez — Remco Evenepoel (@EvenepoelRemco) June 15, 2023

"While a summit finish would have been perfectly possible, it wasn't a good decision to let us finish down this dangerous descent," Evenepoel said . "As riders, we should also think about the risks we take going down a mountain."

Evenepoel posted that message on Thursday, before news of Mäder's death emerged.

In many stage races with famously imposing mountains, organizers place the finish line at the very top of the mountain, or just beyond it.

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Thursday's stage included three mountain passes, with the first (Furka) and last (Albula) rated as "Hors Catégorie" — a designation reserved for ultra-steep climbs that are beyond cycling's normal 5-level categorization for mountains.

"We will see the best climbers in action again, but the last kilometers will also require a large dose of courage and honed descent skills," the race's official guide stated . It promised that the closing kilometers, descending from the Albula Pass to the mountain village of La Punt, "will be something to see."

Mäder died exactly 75 years after the only other death in the Tour de Suisse, which came when Richard Depoorter crashed in a dim tunnel and was run over by an escort vehicle in 1948, according to Swiss broadcaster RSF .

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Fan causes massive crash in tour de france cycling race.

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The 108th Tour de France cycling race got off to a chaotic start on Saturday when a spectator’s sign hit a racer, triggering an enormous pileup.

Replay video shows the fan smiling and facing the same direction as the racers, with a large cardboard sign sticking out into the narrow country road. Tony Martin, a 36-year-old German cyclist, was reportedly the first to go down, followed by a neighboring racer who fell on top of him.

The spectator’s sign read “Allez Opi-Omi!” in black marker ― a message for the holder’s grandparents.

Massive crash. Tour de France pic.twitter.com/2UI6XuY1Uc — daniel (@cyclingreporter) June 26, 2021
GREAT TO SEE SPECTATORS BACK INVOLVED IN SPORTS EH pic.twitter.com/Kwxj8be2Qh — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) June 26, 2021
look at this absolute nightmare that resulted pic.twitter.com/3Nf2QFMqHu — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) June 26, 2021

It was not immediately clear whether anyone had been seriously injured in the wreckage of bicycles and bodies, but at least one person’s bike appeared to have snapped.

Some of the racers ― including Martin, who appeared to have a bloodied arm ― picked themselves up and continued on, with 29-year-old French cyclist Julian Alaphilippe crossing the finish line first. Others waited behind for new bikes to be delivered from their teams.

But it was not smooth sailing from then on: A second big crash that occurred at a higher rate of speed tripped up many of the cyclists who had either missed or overcome the first one. One rider who was flung off his bike narrowly missed hitting a telephone pole along the road.

2 views of the #TourdeFrance crash (second big one of the day). One rider came really close to literally flying head/back first into a telephone pole. pic.twitter.com/2i6pMZBo8m — Cork Gaines (@CorkGaines) June 26, 2021

The 2,124-mile race began today from Brest, a city at the westernmost tip of France. Racers were less than 30 miles from the day’s finish point when the first crash occurred.

The tour’s official Twitter account tweeted out a reminder to fans alongside a montage of spectators getting up close and personal with riders in past races.

“We’re glad to have the public on the side of the road ... but for the Tour to be a success, respect the safety of the riders! Don’t risk everything for a photo or to get on television!”

⚠ We're glad to have the public on the side of the road on the #TDF2021 . But for the Tour to be a success, respect the safety of the riders! Don't risk everything for a photo or to get on television! pic.twitter.com/eA6nnhRhWv — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) June 26, 2021

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Tour de France: Police seek spectator after crash

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Police say they are trying to trace a spectator in connection with a multi-rider pile-up during the first stage of the Tour de France on Saturday.

The female spectator was spotted leaning into the path of the speeding peloton, holding a sign, in the Finistère region of Brittany.

German rider Tony Martin brushed into the sign and fell to the ground, with others behind him following suit.

Police say they have launched a criminal investigation.

They aim to charge the woman with "deliberately violating safety regulations and causing injuries that might prevent someone working for up to three months".

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Video footage of the incident has been widely shared online.

The woman, wearing a yellow coat, can be seen holding a sign with "granny and granddad" written in German. She is looking away from the peloton coming towards her and does not see them approach.

One rider has had to pull out of the Tour completely and another eight riders were treated by an official doctor.

According to police, the woman fled the scene after the crash. Investigators have appealed for witnesses to get in touch.

Tour de France Deputy Director Pierre-Yves Thouault said the tour would take legal action against the woman.

"We are suing this woman who behaved so badly. We are doing this so that the tiny minority of people who do this do not spoil the show for everyone," he told AFP news agency.

France has relaxed its coronavirus restrictions and many people have flocked to see the riders.

Those hoping to watch the riders have been told to keep off the route and maintain their distance.

Following the crash, the Tour de France wrote on Twitter: "For the Tour to be a success, respect the safety of the riders! Don't risk everything for a photo or to get on television!"

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Woman with sign who caused massive Tour de France crash reportedly arrested

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The spectator who sent cyclist Tony Martin and, consequently, a large part of the Tour de France peloton crashing in the opening stage of the race has been arrested, according to multiple reports.

According to reports, the 30-year-old French woman had been taken into custody in Brittany, the northwest French region where the Tour de France, the world's biggest cycling event, held its first four stages.

She is accused of involuntarily causing injury and putting the life of others at risk. RTL is reporting that she is facing a fine of €1,500.

On Saturday, Martin was sent tumbling when he rode straight into a cardboard sign being held out by the woman, who was looking the other way at a television camera, creating chaos with 47 kilometers (29.2 miles) left in the stage.

A huge crash at #TDF2021 this morning was caused when a spectator held out a sign and struck a rider. Jasha Sütterlin was forced to withdraw from the race due to an injury sustained in the crash, according to @LeTour . pic.twitter.com/XCcEjHRAGp — NBC Sports (@NBCSports) June 26, 2021

The Tour has cautioned fans to "respect the safety of the riders'' and not to "risk everything for a photo or to get on television!''

Tour organizers said on Saturday that they planned to sue the woman.

"We are suing this woman who behaved so badly," Pierre-Yves Thouault, the Tour's deputy director, said, according to AFP. "We are doing this so that the tiny minority of people who do this don't spoil the show for everyone."

Another huge pileup occurred in a nervy finale on narrow roads on Monday, leading the Tour de France riders to put their collective foot down at the beginning of the fourth stage on Tuesday -- literally -- bringing the race to a halt for about a minute in a silent protest for safer racing conditions after the crashes.

The brutal scenes prompted veteran sports director Marc Madiot from the Groupama FDJ team to lash out over the lack of safety on the road.

"Tonight, I don't want to see my son become a professional rider,'' Madiot said Monday at the finish in the town of Pontivy. "My wife does not want to see my son on a bike. It's been years that we are talking about [safety]; we need to find solutions. It's not bike racing anymore. One day there will be dead people.''

The last rider to die on the Tour was Fabio Casartelli, an Italian on the then-Motorola team of Lance Armstrong who crashed on the descent of the Portet d'Aspet pass in 1995.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Gino Mäder of Switzerland and another rider tumbled into a ravine during the fourth stage on Thursday. Mäder, 26, died Friday morning.

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UPDATE: Tour de Suisse organizers decided to hold the race’s final two stages this weekend, but three teams, including the Bahrain-Victorious squad the employed Gino Mäder, announced they had dropped out .

A Swiss bicycle racer who crashed on a fast descent during the Tour de Suisse died on Friday, one day after he and another competitor tumbled into a ravine in the Swiss Alps.

The rider, Gino Mäder of Switzerland, was transported to the hospital after the crash on Thursday but died of his injuries on Friday morning, his team, Bahrain-Victorious, said in a statement .

Friday’s stage was canceled after race organizers informed the other teams and the race’s other riders of the death of Mäder, 26, about 30 minutes before it had been scheduled to start. The tour, an important prep race for next month’s Tour de France, is scheduled to continue through Sunday.

Some riders were in tears after hearing the news with the rest of the competitors. Race organizers said the peloton would ride together for part of Friday’s scheduled route in tribute to Mäder. The race is expected to resume on Saturday.

Mäder crashed along with an American rider, Magnus Sheffield, on Stage 5 of the weeklong race, a day that ends with a final descent down the Albula Pass, in the Swiss Alps. The final section where the crash took place, down an unprotected mountain road with mountains to its left and a steep drop-off just beyond its right edge, was largely empty when the riders passed through it.

Mäder and Sheffield were treated where they came to rest, near a set of drainage pipes down a sharp slope. Sheffield, who was reported to have sustained a concussion and cuts and bruises, appeared to be able to walk back up the hill with assistance. Mäder was more seriously injured. After initial treatment, he was evacuated from the scene in a helicopter.

“Gino Mäder lay motionless in the water,” race organizers said in a statement after the crash. “He was immediately resuscitated and then transported to Chur hospital by air ambulance.”

Mäder and Sheffield apparently fell off their bikes and then tumbled down an embankment, according to another rider in the race.

“After a long curve, two bikes were lying on the side of the road, which didn’t look nice,” the cyclist Roland Thalmann told the Swiss broadcaster SRF . “When I looked back, I saw that two riders were quite far down.”

Another rider suggested the crash, and the area where it occurred, should be a warning to race organizers.

“I hope that the final of today’s stage is food for thought for both cycling organizers as well as ourselves as riders,” the reigning world champion Remco Evenepoel said on Twitter after the crash but before news of Mäder’s death became public. “It wasn’t a good decision to let us finish down this dangerous descent. As riders, we should also think about the risks we take going down a mountain.” Evenepoel is in fourth place in the Tour de Suisse.

Mäder’s career highlights were a fifth-place finish in the Vuelta a España and a stage win in the Giro d’Italia in 2021. This season he was fifth in the Paris-Nice race behind the two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar.

Serious injury and deaths of professional cyclists in accidents are not uncommon, although they mostly occur in collisions with cars while training. In races, the danger is greatest on mountain descents, on which riders can reach speeds of 60 miles an hour.

The Italian rider Fabio Casartelli, a teammate of Lance Armstrong, died after a crash on a descent at the 1995 Tour de France.

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Sport Tour de France fan who caused massive crash when riders hit cardboard sign arrested

A woman who caused a massive pile-up during the Tour de France's opening stage has been arrested after handing herself in to French police.

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  • The woman faces a fine, but could also be subject to further legal action
  • Two riders were forced to abandon cycling's biggest race after the crash
  • Defending champion Tadej Pogačar took control with a blistering performance in the stage five time trial

With 47 kilometres left of the stage on Saturday, the spectator brandished a large cardboard sign while leaning into the path of oncoming riders .

Footage showed her looking in the other direction, apparently at a camera, and not at the approaching peloton.

The woman, who was not publicly identified, was arrested by gendarmes in the Finistère region on Wednesday local time.

They tracked her down based on "solid" accounts from people questioned this week, local radio station France Bleu Finistère said, citing a source close to the probe.

Investigators had spoken to dozens of people since the incident , the station said.

The Reuters news agency said the woman had been arrested after handing herself into a police station.

A woman holds a cardboard sign in front of a group of cyclists.

Tour organisers had announced that they would start legal proceedings against the woman , who fled the crash scene.

Tour de France deputy director Pierre-Yves Thouault told the AFP news agency: "We are suing this woman who behaved so badly."

"We are doing this so that the tiny minority of people who do this do not spoil the show for everyone."

She had leaned into the path of veteran rider Tony Martin, who fell off his bike and took dozens of others down .

German rider Jasha Sütterlin was unable to continue the stage, abandoning the race, while Marc Soler completed the stage but was later revealed to have suffered fractures in both arms, meaning he too was forced to abandon.

Eight other riders were seen by the race doctor, while many others suffered minor injuries.

The woman is likely to be fined 1,500 euros for endangering the riders, although several of those affected have hinted at taking further action.

Soler told Spanish daily newspaper La Vanguardia that he was thinking of suing the spectator.

"I don't know what to do, I'm thinking of taking the spectator to court, because that's an entire Tour thrown away and I feel a lot of anger," he said.

"It wasn't just a race incident, it was because of a spectator who obviously doesn't like cycling. All that preparation has gone into the bin."

Local police refused to comment on the reported arrest.

Fans gathering on the sides of roads and in villages as riders pass by is part of the tradition and charm of the Tour.

But the woman in question leaned into the path of cyclists with her sign that read "Allez Opi-Omi," a mix of French and German-language terms of endearment for grandparents: "Go Grandpa-Grandma."

Tadej Pogačar powers to time trial victory, cements race favouritism

Tadej Pogacar sticks his tongue out while riding, wearing a white skin suit

In the day's racing, Slovenian defending champion Tadej Pogačar took control with a blistering performance in the stage five time trial.

Pogačar, who stunned compatriot Primož Roglič in the penultiumate time trial stage of last year's race, laid down a serious marker for his rivals with a blistering time on the 27.2km-long ride around Changé.

"Today was a really good day for me. I didn't do any mistakes," Pogačar said.

The 22-year-old UAE Team Emirates leader did not seize the yellow jersey, which remains on the shoulders of Mathieu van der Poel by a mere 8 seconds.

But he gained significant time over his main rivals, completing the technical course in 32 minutes at an average speed of 51kph.

"I would love to have the yellow jersey, but also on Mathieu it looks super nice, so it's fine," he said.

Pogačar was 44 seconds faster than Roglič, while 2018 champion Geraint Thomas dropped 1 minute, 18 seconds.

His Ineos Grenadiers teammate Richard Carapaz, a former Giro champion with big ambitions at the Tour this year, was 1:44 off the pace.

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Their Australian teammate Richie Porte fared better, losing just 55 seconds, but as he lost significant time during the crash-marred Brittany stages earlier in the race, he still sits 3 minutes , 50 seconds off the pace overall.

The Tour is a race of attrition and remains wide open, with bigger tests to come in the mountain stages of the Alps and Pyrenees.

However, Pogačar proved last year — when he became the second-youngest winner in the race's history — that he can compete with the best climbers. 

In addition, he has a stronger team this year, and the Tour is less mountainous.

More importantly, another long time trial will be on the program on the eve of the finish on the Champs-Élysées. 

Roglič, who was Pogacar's main rival last year, said he was proud of his performance following his heavy crash two days earlier.

"It's hard, definitely. All the time trials are always very painful, let's say it like that," he said.

"But I just missed some power. I really squeezed totally everything out of myself."

Thomas was also recovering from a crash and said he did the best he could.

"Obviously, I didn't feel 100 per cent, but I don't want to bang on about that, I tried to do what I could and it wasn't enough really," he said.

"I woke up this morning and felt terrible, but once I got going and loosened up it was better. It's just one of those things that you have to crack on and deal with — just keep fighting I guess."

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Videos from spectators posted on social media show the P-63 banking and striking the B-17, which was flying straight. The impact disintegrated the P-63 and cracked the B-17 in two, with the front half of the fuselage exploding in flames as it hit the ground.

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The FAA released audio from the crash in January 2023 .

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Audio from the Wings Over Dallas air show gives insight into the moments before and after the collision that killed six airmen and destroyed two WWII-era aircraft in November.

A 36-minute air traffic control recording The Dallas Morning News obtained from the FAA contains conversations between multiple pilots and the show’s air boss, who is responsible for airshow operations on the taxiways, runways and demonstration area.

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Flight safety experts have said human error was likely a factor in the crash, but it’s unclear from videos whether that error was by one of the pilots, an official communicating with planes from the ground or someone involved in the preparations for the air show.

In the wreckage removed from the airport in the days following the crash, evidence included an electronic flight display from the B-17 and a GPS navigational unit from the P-63.

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Both devices were damaged but sent to a lab in Washington, D.C., to determine what information, if any, could be retrieved. The B-17′s device contained position information, the report says, while the device recovered from P-63 “did not record any information for the accident flight.”

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ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A deadly crash on Monday afternoon happened when a speeding vehicle crossed the center line on a sweeping curve and collided with an oncoming truck, according to a new report from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

The Sheriff’s Office explained Rolando Rancano was heading south on Ponce de Leon Street in Royal Palm Beach shortly after 2:30 p.m. He could not stay in his lane as the road began bending to the right, the report continued. The Labelle man’s 2019 Audi S5 went out of its lane at the apex and into the path of a northbound 2018 Nissan Titan that was hauling a trailer, investigators determined.

The two-vehicle wreck spun both the sedan and the full-size pick-up in addition to toppling the trailer, according to the report.

Rancano, 37, was pronounced dead on the scene.

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The three people in the other trailer all suffered serious injuries and were taken to the hospital for treatment, the Sheriff’s Office added. One of them was transported by helicopter, while two others were taken by ground transportation, Palm Beach Fire Rescue added.

The Sheriff's Office later noted the Audi driven by Rancano was reported stolen from a grocery store about five minutes before the crash.

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Two people were killed after a crash involving a trailer lorry and a tour van.

A tour van collided with a trailer in an accident in Sabah, Malaysia on Mar 11, 2024. (Photo: Facebook/Balai Bomba Dan Penyelamat Semporna, Sabah)

SEMPORNA: A Singaporean man was among two people killed after a crash involving a trailer lorry and a tour van in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Monday afternoon (Mar 11).

The driver of a trailer lorry is believed to have lost control of his vehicle, entering the opposite lane and causing the collision in Semporna, said District Police Chief Supt Mohd Farhan Lee Abdullah.

The tour van was carrying six Singaporean and Vietnamese tourists. Two of them - a 60-year-old Singaporean man and a 40-year-old Vietnamese woman - died.

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The tour van driver, a 42-year-old Malaysian man, and four Singaporean passengers were seriously injured and taken to Tawau Hospital, said Mohd Farhan. 

Semporna Fire and Rescue Station chief Mazlan Sarman said in an earlier statement that an 11-year-old girl was among the injured passengers. 

The trailer driver, a 29-year-old Malaysian man, was unhurt. He was later arrested to assist with investigations. 

Photos released by the Semporna fire and rescue department show the overturned tour van, with its windscreen shattered and roof partially crushed. 

The impact of the collision also caused debris to fly into the glass screen of a box truck that was travelling behind the trailer.

In response to CNA's queries, Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday it has been rendering consular assistance and support, via the Singapore High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, to the affected Singaporeans and their families.

It added that officials from the High Commission have been in close contact with Sabah authorities and are in the city of Tawau to provide further assistance.

"MFA extends its deepest condolences to the bereaved families and wishes the injured Singaporeans a smooth and speedy recovery."

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