Tour de France 2013

DS announcing inquiry into bus (probably shouldn't have been on the course at that time anyway) and possible expulsion of O.G.E.

Gripl to blame.......no Yllw for Cvndsh......quality bit of entertainment!

Fckng Grpl

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/6/29/1372519181039/d39169fb-884f-4127-9e08-d059af0726a1-460x276.jpeg

Go home bus, you are drunk

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BN74kNbCQAQ95SH.jpg

Geraint Thomas crashed? You do surprise me.

Goes drown more often than a...

Hope he hasn't broken anything. Shame for Tony Martin as well.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BN74kNbCQAQ95SH.jpg

It has been a long time since I last saw the OGE logo cross the finish line first.

Was Farrar driving?

Cav hasn't punched anybody yet. Come on, Cv! You can do better than this!

Broken collarbone for Martin (probably) feel for him. Sucks.

Crshd as fck.

2013 Tour de France Bus incident finish line - YouTube

Fairly sure UCI has a load of regulations on team car size / height. Shame they don't apply to buses. Or maybe they do and the banner was wrong height or OGE's bus didn't comply? And how did it take so long to move it? Fairly fucking amateur.

Brian Smith said the bus was running late and the moveable gantry had already been lowered.

And Brian Nygaard from OGE said an official from ASO had told them to go that way, even though they were late

What the fuck happened with that crash?
Or, how did it happen?

"with the accident appearing to be caused when Andre Greipel (Lotto Belisol) went through a tight gap, clipped an Omega Pharma Quick Step rider, and caused the latter to fall."
Read more: http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/14867/Kittel-grabs-first-Tour-de-France-stage-win-Greipel-Cavendish-and-Sagan-held-up.aspx#ixzz2XcgXUQf8

Sorry Chav, looks like it was zee Germans fault.

Kittel had no idea about the bus being stuck..

"Told about the bus jammed at the finish line, Kittel said that he wasn’t aware of it during the stage. That also meant that he didn’t know about the reported shift in position of the finish line. “I didn’t know,” he confirmed. “I hear it now for the first time. I think we were pretty lucky that they could tow the bus away. I am really happy that we finished a bit later.”
Read more: http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/14867/Kittel-grabs-first-Tour-de-France-stage-win-Greipel-Cavendish-and-Sagan-held-up.aspx#ixzz2Xcgu4aMB

bus driver's reaction is EPIC!

Bus coincé sur la ligne d'arrivée de la première étape du Tour de France 2013 (Bastia-Corse) - YouTube

Cheers hippy
Watching on French tv, Madot was tres pissed off
Only my French isn't good enough to know what about exactly. Pretty chaotic first stage

I' m half Corsican, not very pleased at the moment.
Just a few clues from the video above:
the arch is mobile and set up higher in the morning to allow general trafic through,
divers have to ask verbal authorisation to use the road to the arrival,
it was given to him but the arch is lowerered for the arrival,
apparently it got through thanks to deflated tires.
The road managing must be very difficult,
very few options available,
the advice to locals was: "don't take your car".

"with the accident appearing to be caused when Andre Greipel (Lotto Belisol) went through a tight gap, clipped an Omega Pharma Quick Step rider, and caused the latter to fall."
Read more: http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/14867/Kittel-grabs-first-Tour-de-France-stage-win-Greipel-Cavendish-and-Sagan-held-up.aspx#ixzz2XcgXUQf8

on the replay you can see his rear mech gets ripped off

Just read froome crashed in the neutral zone at the start #facepalm