“Thank you for this kind of human bullshit. It was with a message on Twitter that the runner Lilian Calmejane came out of his hinges on Sunday. The cyclist is thus attacking people who would have put nails and tacks on the route of the second stage of the Tour de France, not far from the finish of the second stage in San Sebastian, Spain.
“Know that you can fall down and hurt yourself a lot with your bullshit, you morons,” he blasted. And the Intermarché-Circus-Wanty runner is not the only one in this case. On Sunday, several riders noticed punctures in their tires at the finish of the day’s stage.
Thank you for this kind of human bullshit … I think I was not the only victim of a puncture in the end … know that you can fall and get really hurt with your stupid bullshit … ?? pic.twitter.com/ IoTMolFKgO
In the comments, runner Oliver Naesen makes the same observation while Jonas Rickaert posted a photo of the wheel of his bicycle on which we can see a thumbtack inserted. His photo is accompanied by a message: “Please guys don’t do this. »
Please… don’t do this guys ?? @LeTour pic.twitter.com/Wj5r8mBvEM
The presence of nails would therefore explain the series of punctures which marked the end of the stage won by Victor Lafay. According to the Republican East, on the side of the winners of the day, the Cofidis team, it was time for questions. Group leader Guillaume Martin said he wondered “if there weren’t people who threw thumbtacks or something else”, recalling that they were three riders from the same team “to have punctures in the same place”. .
It would not be the first time that such malicious acts have been committed. In particular, nails were thrown on the road to Valence in 1996. Also in 2012, around thirty riders in the peloton suffered punctures due to upholsterers’ nails thrown on the road.