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Spectators: was tour de france : scandalous
Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:39:38 GMT,
m, Zippy the Pinhead wrote: Remember a couple of Giros ago when some guy on a mountain stage smacked some heckler right in the jaw and got disqualified? I saw a short loop from French TV of what looked like a cyclo-cross race. One competitor shoved another and a fan charged the guy doing the shoving, knocked him from his bike and threw him off the bridge into the water below. -- zk |
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"Zoot Katz" wrote in message
... Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:39:38 GMT, m, Zippy the Pinhead wrote: Remember a couple of Giros ago when some guy on a mountain stage smacked some heckler right in the jaw and got disqualified? I saw a short loop from French TV of what looked like a cyclo-cross race. One competitor shoved another and a fan charged the guy doing the shoving, knocked him from his bike and threw him off the bridge into the water below. I'd bet a buck and a quarter that that was staged. Cynical Bill |
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:01:17 +0100, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
wrote: I guess your crazies are too busy shooting up schools or random civilians :-/ OTOH, Guy, our most recent sporting crazy ran along the Hanger Straight in the wrong direction with cars racing towards him at 180+mph. James -- http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.butty/Larrau.jpg |
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Spectators: was tour de france : scandalous
Sorni wrote:
"Zoot Katz" wrote in message I saw a short loop from French TV of what looked like a cyclo-cross race. One competitor shoved another and a fan charged the guy doing the shoving, knocked him from his bike and threw him off the bridge into the water below. I'd bet a buck and a quarter that that was staged. I've seen it too. I don't think there was anything in it that made it look staged. It's certainly very funny and almost unbelievable, but such things do happen. Here's a video: http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~sivann/pub/bikeRace.mpg -as |
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23 Jul 2003 00:11:37 GMT, ,
Antti Salonen wrote: It's certainly very funny and almost unbelievable, but such things do happen. I didn't think it funny at all. Streams are often shallow and rocky. That thug had no business interfering with the race. -- zk |
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"James Hodson" wrote in message ... On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:01:17 +0100, "Just zis Guy, you know?" wrote: I guess your crazies are too busy shooting up schools or random civilians :-/ OTOH, Guy, our most recent sporting crazy ran along the Hanger Straight in the wrong direction with cars racing towards him at 180+mph. Theres a right direction? |
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:59:27 +0000 (UTC), "W K"
wrote: Theres a right direction? There certainly is: t'other direction. James -- http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.butty/Larrau.jpg |
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"Mark Weaver" wrote in message ... "Walter Mitty" wrote in message ... Am enjoying my first full Tour on the TV : (an evening job helps) Lance was just knocked off his bike by a ****ing stupid spectator. What are the "rules" here?? Will Ulrich pull up and let Lance get back into the race or is it just "rub of the green" as they say in Golf? That spectator should be hung by his toes. All that effort, training, determination, cat & mouse ruined by one foolish asshole. Not clear it was the spectator's fault -- he (or she) was just holding a bag of something standing alongside the route and Lance cut very close to the edge of the road and caught his brake lever on it. The fan wasn't one of those jumping out in front and back and the last moment -- he was just standing there. More accurately... I was watching this shortly after it happened. I have a Tivo like divice so I quickly repeated the footage. I had to watch it severl times in slow-mothion to figure out what happened. The yellow bag that caught Lance's bars was held by a small boy, mostly obscured by a much larger man. Apparently the boy swung the bag out, but I don't think he did it maliciously. Lance was gracious in taking the blame. Those spectators scare me. |
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