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Tours, France (VN) — The spectator who induced a key pileup on stage 1 of the 2021 Tour de France is probable to deal with legal fees, and some riders feel that is a step much too much.

Information that police identified and billed the admirer who provoked the phase 1 pileup ricocheted close to the peloton overnight, and on Thursday morning some riders voiced their belief that charging the enthusiast is not the appropriate class of action.

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“Arresting a lover is as well significantly,” said Ag2r-Citroën’s Oliver Naesen. “I hope her name does not show up on the net or [on] social media, since individuals issues can be everyday living-switching.”

On Wednesday the admirer — identified as a 30-year-aged Frenchwoman — turned herself in to authorities. The female was cited for creating the to start with main crash in Saturday’s opening phase in Brittany. She was keeping a cardboard signal with a information to her grandparents when Jumbo-Visma’s Tony Martin struck her.

In accordance to The New York Occasions, Camille Miansoni, a prosecutor in Brest, France, who is overseeing the scenario, stated he will come to a decision whether or not or not to push fees against the girl. The prices beneath thing to consider could have a most sentence of two several years in jail, relying on the severity of the accidents sustained by cyclists in the crash. Prison is not probable, Miansoni said.

“She expressed a experience of shame, of panic for the consequences of her actions,” the French prosecutor mentioned in a information convention.

In accordance to media reviews, the woman in concern life not far from where the crash occurred in the city of Landerneau.

However, Naesen thinks that the incident does not warrant authorized punishment.

“It’s an incident, and she did not do it on objective. I was kind of hoping they wouldn’t locate her,” Naesen advised VeloNews. “Every crew was involved in the crash, but I did not go down. Each day we go 1,000 people today like her who are hanging around the streets. We crash into one particular, but not the other types. What can we do? We can’t arrest them all.”

That influence provoked a massive pileup that brought the peloton to a standstill as bodies and bikes blocked the highway. Jasha Sütterlin (DSM) crashed out that working day, and Spanish rider Marc Soler, who remaining the Tour as a consequence, is also threatening authorized action.

There was also an outpouring of grief and anger on social media directed toward the female, who went into hiding to steer clear of the community angst right before an individual who regarded her confront named police.

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Riders and groups continue on to push the Tour and the UCI to produce safer racing conditions.

Many significant-profile crashes in the opening three times of racing caused by slender roads, greater stress in the bunch, and the return to enthusiasts together the roadway pursuing the 2020 COVID-19 limits all added up to unsafe racing.

Riders even staged an impromptu protest early in Tuesday’s stage to test to bring rider basic safety queries into sharper target.

Riders, nevertheless, explained going following more than-zealous enthusiasts who did not do a little something on objective is going far too considerably.

“It’s good for the signal [to fans], but for me, we never have to punish her that tricky. She didn’t do it on purpose,” mentioned Lotto-Soudal’s Thomas De Gendt. “She just designed a definitely stupid transfer and it was seriously dumb, but she didn’t do it on objective.

“She needed her five seconds of fame, and now it was even more time,” De Gendt advised VeloNews. “They really do not have to punish her that substantially.”