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Demonstrations, fall, mudslide: the previous neutralizations of the Tour de France

2022-07-12T16:14:07.887Z


The tenth stage between Morzine and Megève was interrupted by the presence of demonstrators on the road, forcing the organizers to blockade


And suddenly, Alberto Bettiol found himself in the middle of the smoke bombs.

Escaped at the head of the Tour de France during the tenth stage between Morzine and Megève, the Italian found himself slaloming between demonstrators who came to burst onto the route of the Grande Boucle.

The runner from the EF Education-EasyPost training was then forced to stop on the orders of the organizers who decided to neutralize the race for a quarter of an hour, the time to evacuate the initiators of an action claimed on social networks by the environmental group Last Renovation.

In the long history of the event, this is not the first time that the peloton has been forced to cut its effort due to external events.

A brief overview of the previous ones.

2019: a mudslide before the finish in Tignes

After the disappointment of the cruel retirement of Thibaut Pinot on injury, the Tour continues its crazy day this July 26, 2019 in the Alps.

A hailstorm on the descent of the Iseran caused a major mudslide twenty meters long and fifty meters thick which covered the road leading to Tignes, where the finish was to be judged.

Faced with this sticky and impassable obstacle for bicycles, the jury of commissioners decided to neutralize the race 30 km from the end.

There is no stage winner, and the times used for the general classification are those at the top of the Col de l'Iseran.

Julian Alaphilippe loses his yellow jersey, which slips on the shoulders of Egan Bernal, future winner of this Grande Boucle.

Video of the mudslide which, in addition to #hail, caused the stoppage of the stage of the Tour de France towards #Tignes.

For tomorrow, the forecast remains very bad with a risk of #hail storms once again.

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– Fabien Delacour (@FabienDel69) July 26, 2019

2018: tear gas near Carcassonne

A demonstration of farmers, bales of straw on the road, and the police who intervene with tear gas to free the road.

This is the cocktail that leads to the interruption of the race on the sixteenth stage of the Tour 2018, less than 30 km after the start of Carcassonne.

Bothered by gas, several runners stop to be treated.

The yellow jersey, Geraint Thomas, is in tears.

Faced with this slump, the peloton dismounted for a little over ten minutes before setting off again.

2015: a heavy fall from the start of the Tour

On the Belgian roads, the bosses of the Tour say stop for ten minutes.

The reason ?

A very impressive fall which occurs 59 km from the finish in Huy.

A good twenty runners end up on the ground in this huge crash caused by William Bonnet.

The Frenchman was forced to retire, as were the Dutchman Tom Dumoulin and the Australian Simon Gerrans.

The leader of the general classification Fabian Cancellara is among the men sent to the ground.

For lack of ambulances to ensure the safety of the rest of the peloton, the race is stopped.

The five-time winner of the Grande Boucle Eddy Merckx is surprised, the boss of the Etixx-Quick Step formation, Patrick Lefevere, is annoyed on Twitter.

1996: snow shortens the race

The snowflakes rule between Val d'Isère and Sestrières on July 8, 1996. Impassable, the Galibier and Iseran passes are removed from the route of the day.

The organizers plan the stage, increasing it to 46 km between Le Mônetiers-les-Bains and the Italian city.

The Dane Bjarne Riis wins, and takes the opportunity to take yellow.

1982: a demonstration of workers causes the cancellation of the stage

It is one of the most famous stories in the history of the Tour de France.

The Usinor steelworkers demonstrated and invaded the Orchies and Fontaine-au-Pire team time trial route.

In Denain, everything is blocked.

The Grande Boucle will not pass, and the stage is cancelled.

Source: leparis

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