There was some confusion on today’s stage of the Four Days of Dunkirk when a lead motorbike took a wrong turn at a roundabout resulting in a number of riders going off course.
The incident took place with 7.5 kilometres left of the stage from Béthune to Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise as the peloton were chasing down a breakaway.
The riders were due to continue straight through a roundabout but instead, one of the lead motorbikes took the first exit with a number of riders following.
Upon realising the mistake, the riders braked quickly to try and get back on course resulting in AG2R La Mondiale’s Samuel Dumoulin hitting the back wheel of another rider.
The French rider hit the ground hard and was forced out of the race due to his injuries.
Bryan Coquard (Direct Energie) took the stage win in a bunch sprint ahead of Baptiste Planckaert (Wallonie-Bruxelles) and Rudy Barbier (Lille Métropole).
#4JDD l Quand la moto se trompe de route, fait demi-tour et renverse des coureurs… #LesRP pic.twitter.com/9ZR4iTet13
— La GazetteDes Sports (@GazetteDesSport) May 6, 2016
Mark Pitman
WTF is going on in the #cycletours , every bloody day, sort it out #UCI 🙁
Is it just me, or is there a Moto incident in almost every race now? Has it always been like this, and media just didn’t cover it? Or is it a trend in cycling lately? Or is it just so hyped, so it seems like it’s always happening?
Hold up: that’s not a “lead” moto, it’s a camera bike. Why are any of the riders following it? Notice that the rest of the peloton continued on the right route. Why? Because they knew the course. At the risk of being a total contrarian, this isn’t the moto’s fault.
Would’ve been nice if the numbnut with the camera had stopped filming and gone to check on the rider
et le connard de caméraman continu de filmer …