Although the public's attention continues to be captured by the WC in Brazil, the Tour de France cycling race also took its share of the cake this week, losing two superstars, Mark Cavendish and last year's winner Christopher Froome, already in the opening. But the caravan goes on and despite the calls of the organizer and the competitors that the fans do not endanger the cyclists with stupid maneuvers, it already offered some hot situations in the first week.
Of course, there were also some that do not belong to the category of madness and foolishness, and you can see a mixture of both below.
Hockey stick
On the second day, the Giant Shimano team was first scared by the fall Marcel Kittle, then also the bearer of the yellow shirt, and the second time they turned pale when he did Roy Curvers was preparing the ground for an intermediate sprint and was forced, machete-style to cut through an impenetrable forest, to give an accidental hockey stick to a spectator watching the race through a camera screen 'thorn', which turned the inattentive man into a merry-go-round for a moment.
Smartphones, stupid fans
Even though the television cameras make sure that no moment of the race escapes the lens, the fans still like to opt for own direction. Sometimes they go so far that the video devices literally pray to the cyclists under the nose. What went in the nose To Ramunas Navardauskas from the Garmin-Sharp team, who 'slammed' two smartphones and more than obviously sent a message to the fans what he thought about it, without them having to read his text message in the mailbox.
It is otherwise true in cycling unwritten rule, that if a cyclist sees that a spectator threatens another cyclist in front of him, and he did not have time to react, he gets the right 'uses', and this 'jurisprudence' was clearly visible at this year's Giro na Zoncolan, where it is Wout Poels took off the spectator's glasses as a sign of disapproval and threw them far away.
Hats off to the courage
Because David Miller he was not selected for the team for the Tour, he was looking out of the hat for a long time. But when he swapped his casual cycling shoes for commentators and his helmet for a hat, he looked like Paddington Bear or the Canadian gendarme (Mounties) and immediately became the target of online pranksters, and his expert comments were lost in the midst of ridicule and snorts.
Refreshment of champions
Probably the boy who has it Marcus Burghardt pushed his own into his hands "bread man", is still bursting with joy today, but also with energy, because it was full energy tiles, gels and other preparations that keep cyclists upright. Marcus wasn't overly hungry, but we know that children get it big eyes when we offer them something sweet. And that was certainly not missing in this bag.
Where's Wiggo?
As long as the Tour v Great Britain, in addition to the caravan and spectators, he was also accompanied by mourning for not choosing a local Bradley Wiggins to the team Sky-yeah (how come they're only interested in him after the black middle, when Christopher Froome was forced to resign). Jokes on this account shook the viewers like from the sleeve until the french bow moved over Sleeve dressing.
Get to know the 'wheels' of racing
Are you interested in what it looks like in 'backstage' racing? Cameras Shimano CM-100 sport strapped on a bike Geraint Thomas (on the 'front' of the caravan) and Bernard Eisel (at the beginning) take you to the very center of the action of the 3rd stage.
Nibali got the yellow shirt, but not the kiss
When Vincenzo Nibali (Astana Pro Team) to taste the cheek of the girl standing next to him on the victory stage, it looked as if she had rejected him with the intention of sending him into the world a feminist statement. Before the various theories were circulated, there was speculation through the newspaper Le Parisien cleaned up by herself Marie-Alexie Barzerque, otherwise a veteran of such events, who explained that it was not a rejection, but that Nibali was her move mistranslated and this at the very moment when she herself received the instruction to take the famous lion Credit Lyonnais and hands it over to the freshly baked yellow shirt wearer. Anyway, Nibali really didn't win baskets (by the way, what pro even has it on his bike???), but the embarrassment remains and along with the yellow shirt he also got a few lines in yellow print.
Ata Schleck
No, he didn't break into the Tour's station wagon grandfather, but it's a face Frank Schleck (Trek Factory Racing) at the finish line 5th stage. His expression revealed the truth about this greatest stage race. Suffer and suffer some more. And maybe you manage to get to Paris.
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