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That's not actually what happened. He crashed on the descent before the Angliru, which they knew would be dangerous beforehand and he was protesting that. Not that anyone noticed.
There was a great km 0 from the Cycling Podcast on this during the Vuelta.
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I stand corrected.
I like the podcast but refused to pay to get KM0 given it was free at the other grand tours.
Either way - Millar is full of shit. I was amazed to see David Walsh leaning on Millar's judgement in this article...
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That's not actually what happened. He crashed on the descent before the Angliru, which they knew would be dangerous beforehand and he was protesting that. Not that anyone noticed.
I was about to say this. The organisers had pretty much deliberately planned the carnage which happened on that wet descent, knowing what happened when the Vuleta previously went down it (lots of crashes and broken bones). In Millar's book (I've not heard the podcast) he explains how they'd put 2m high barriers along some of the course and police to stop fans helping the riders. The moment when Millar first lost it was when he saw a policeman pin a fan who had somehow got through against these barriers by pushing his arm against the fans neck. As Andy says that was what led to the protest, not it being too steep (he'd already given up on the race after crashing and having his bike run over by a team car).
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You mean the same David Millar who climbed off on the Angliru because it was steep?