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Don't they have special holders for the cobbles ............

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I dont know maybe, but some still make a bid for freedom 

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One was thrown at the feet of a little boy [3/4yrs] yesterday, his face lit up.  The cyclists saw a few people ahead and waited so that the bottle landed at the child's feet 

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They do try and throw the bottles and lunch bags near spectators, We have lots of bottles not so many bags.  When we got the bags they had food left in them unopened, wrapped in foil with a sticker saying what was inside including french bread, rice cake type thing and a brownie, one if the bottles had a soup or milkshake inside looked disgusting when we cleaned it out 

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Geraint has a fractured pelvis and has been withdrawn.

Such huge bad luck. 

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OUCH!

Did U eat any of it, we did 

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No just looked 

Geraint did come down hard on his hip, he has no padding cyclists are so skinny 

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Seen the replay this morning  : now had that been a footballer   

Geraint will need plenty of pain relief and non weight bearing exercise.

Apparently the prickly pear in the area a thugs from Mexico, the pads are sliced and fried, the fruits make into jam.  Anyone ? 


There re a lot of properties on this route 'ripe for renovation' ....... made of stone but no roofs !

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I think it might be a mafia hotspot dont know if id want a holiday home there 

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AAAHhh  -  I was wondering yesterday how much Giro has had to pay them in order to have a protected race 

They aren't half racing down hill  now that they are out of the mist!

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Well - Peter misses out again 

Was there a collision  with barriers at the end

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From Brent on Twitter:

Did anyone catch the crash that happened in our groupetto with 800 meters to go
@giroditalia
 
when the helicopter sent the unsecured barriers flying into riders just inches away from me? One of them on a stretcher to the hospital.
@cpacycling
 
@UCI_cycling
 
@DLappartient
 
@ANAPRC_

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OH!  I thought I had seen video of this:

Vini Zabù-Brado-KTM rider Luca Wackermann has been taken to hospital after an accident in the final kilometre of stage 4 of the Giro d'Italia in Villafranca Tirrena.

The Italian and his teammate Etienne van Empel were taken out by moving barriers at around 800 metres from the line of the sprint stage, with team general manager Angelo Citracca saying on Italian television post-race talk show that a helicopter had flown too low and blown the barriers across the road and into the path of the riders.

A representative of race organisers RCS Sport told Cyclingnews that the barriers at the side of the road were tied together and that the wind was low, suggesting that the RAI helicopter was to blame. 


Van Empel was able to get back on his bike and finish the stage, but Wackermann was knocked unconscious and taken to hospital. Citracca suggested that he could have suffered a fractured femur or pelvis as a result of the collision, though his injuries are yet to be confirmed.



and from yesterday:  Giro d'Italia: Visconti's sports director fined after throwing bottle in frustration

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More on Luka:  Vini Zabù directeur sportif Francesco Frassi said that the cause has yet to be fully determined, adding that the team's worst fears about Wackermann's injuries are over.

"They told us that the barriers moved suddenly," said Frassi. "We don't know exactly why; if it was because the helicopter flew too low or if the wind picked up.

"Fortunately Luca Wackermann came around in the ambulance. I've spoken to him on the phone and he was okay, he was calm and so our worst fears are over. He couldn't remember anything about what happened. He doesn't seem to have anything broken but we're waiting on what the checks-up in hospital reveal."

Wackermann and Van Empel were the only two riders affected and were pictured laying on the ground besides their bikes shortly after Groupama-FDJ sprinter Arnaud Démare was confirmed as the stage winner in a photo finish.

Van Empel later took to Twitter, stating that he has only suffered "small cuts on my fingers" and adding that the barrier flew into the group he was riding with "out of nowhere".

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I watched the finish but missed all that drama