Idiot behaviour on the 1913 Tour de France

davidof
davidof Posts: 3,116
edited July 2013 in Pro race

Cher Henri,

I wish to draw your attention to the behaviour of certain spectators and participants on this year's Tour de France. If the tour is still to be around in another 100 years we will have to address these issues with the utmost urgency.

Dogs and other livestock
There have been a number of incidents with stray dogs and other livestock such as cattle.

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Fancy Dress
Self aggrandizing idiots wearing of fancy dress, stilts etc. are to be discouraged This is a bicycle race not a parade.

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Running next to riders
I fear this is the result of the innovation of mountain stages in the tour, we have spectators running next to riders endangering both their own and competitor safety

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Doping
There is talk of riders injecting strychnine and drinking copious amounts of hard liquor on stages.

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Antics
Riders performing acrobatics and other antics should be frowned upon.

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Crowding
Certain stages are becoming utter bedlam. It is worse than the Colosseum of ancient Rome with riders barely given breathing room and unable to advance

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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Blimey, it's like Nostradamus wrote that, at least the idiots are nothing new!
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    :lol:

    Someone probably taking the photos and adding their words but it is still funny!
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    A great piece of work. Cheers. The controversies contribute hugely to the experience.
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    That must be Sagan's great grandad doing the handstand.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Bet people moaned that it was boring though, what with Philippe Thys winning by over 8 minutes and third being a staggering 3.5 hours behind plus the Peugeot team dominating the race, filling the top 3 places and having 6 men in the top 10.

    Had a look at the route for that Tour and other than a small section of north west France as they detoured out of / back into Paris it really was a full circuit.

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