As soon put his bike, Chris Froome took over the microphone to give vent to his anger at the finish of the stage Rodez-Mende, Saturday, July 18, the carrier the yellow jersey of the Tour de France, came with four minutes behind the stage winner of the day, Stephen Cummings, complained of being targeted by a spectator who allegedly threw her urine and the would have treated doped.
“It was 50 or 60 kilometers after the start, a type specifically referred to me with a cup that he dropped on me. No doubt it was urine. “
” I am very disappointed by the turn of events. I do not blame the public, the majority supports us. There is a minority that is expressed [...] A minority destroyed the atmosphere, “ said the Englishman, who had already been whistles from the public, Wednesday, July 15. The day before, on July 14, Chris Froome had struck the spirits by winning handily the first arrival in the top of the 2015 edition, La Pierre Saint Martin in the Pyrenees, relegating all rivals to the simple rank of listed .
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Mende, besides his press conference in intervention, also expressed Froome the “disappointment” on the social network Twitter.
On a visit to the Tour de France, the former Danish rider Michael Rasmussen, suspended for doping between 2007 and 2009, is his part denounced the “Lack of education” of the individual who would have sprayed urine Briton:
Already winner of the Tour de France in 2013, Britain’s of ‘Sky team says this behavior and these doping suspicions are fed, he said, by “irresponsible reports that have been made in recent days.” Those who cast suspicion will recognize “, has he added without naming names. “ ” The tone used in some reports that some people believe them. This is unacceptable! “
The year of his coronation on the Tour de France in 2013, Chris Froome had struggled facing suspicion created by nature” superhuman “performance. Even his wife, Michelle Cound, had attacked the media: “ Dear journalists, that Lance Armstrong was a lying psychopath does not allow you to treat Chris Froome as a punching bag,” Had she embarked on a vengeful tweet, July 9, 2013.
In the past, rare incidents of this type have marked the stages of the Tour. In 2013, Mark Cavendish was sprinkled with urine during the against the clock to Mont-Saint-Michel, in the aftermath of a tumultuous sprint in which the British had yet not at fault.
The most serious case in the Date Tour 1975. A spectator had dealt a liver punch to the Belgian champion Eddy Merckx, then the yellow jersey in the climb of the Puy de Dome.
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