In a career like Tour de France and in any self-respecting race, cyclists need to keep four eyes on the road, because they never know when or how danger will appear. And to show what happened in the course of nninth stage of the Tour de Francea day marked in red on the teams’ agenda during the last ascent of the volcano Puy de Dome.
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The peloton passed with a certain normality, allowing the 14 escapees to walk, approaching the first mountainous difficulty of the day. (Côte de Felletinin the 4th category, 2.3 km at 4.8%), when the French cyclist Lilian Calmejane it landed unexpectedly.
His bike got caught in the long flag of a fan and the blow was dry on the asphalt. Fortunately he was the only one involved in the fall and Calmejane he was able to continue the race, although he would take away the logical anger at the situation the team rider was in Intermarché-Circus-Wanty.
Source: La Verdad
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