Tour de France 2011 Stage 9: Issoire - Saint-Flour 208 km

[RdBiker]

French TV takes out Hoogie and flecha

Maybe they're playing this one for Voeckler...just kidding, this is terrible

 

[maltiv]

If that guy doesn't lose his license I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

 

[Arnout]

Voeckler rides on, what a moron

Bull**** no need to sacrifce yellow for a nuts driver.

Hoogerland back on bike.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

The average Versus audience knows nothing about cycling except they're excited about the mountains coming up, because that's where Lance is going to take the yellow jersey.

 

[Animal]

Hoogerland flew into a barbed wire fence. Looked horrific.

 

[jsem94]

That is some BS right there.

 

[hfer07]

this is BS-how on earth sh!t like that ever happens during the Tour?

 

[Moondance]

Hoogie on his bike

After that stunt I'm shocked he hasn't broken something.

 

[slim charles]

jesus****inchrist, how is it possible to be such an idiot. go **** yourself stupid driver

 

[YoRUsh]

He should be back on his bike, no sign as the peloton rides past the spot

 

[Jamsque]

I have never in my life seen a car swipe sideways in to a rider in a bike race like that. Disgusting.

I hope Hoogerland is ok, he was rammed in to that fence really hard.

 

[Shardi]

conspiracy theories go. 2/5 french, now 2/3.

+ Voeckler in polkadots.

 

[AussieGoddess]

Wow that is vrap.

 

[BYOP88]

Have they been taking stupid pills? WTF was that driving about

 

[ExRower]

why the f was that car half off the road in the first place. dumbf*ck

 

[Ramira]

If that guy doesn't lose his license I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

If he just loses his license he got away to lucky in my opinion. This should at the very least be a huge fine if not jail time.

 

[Arnout]

Hoogerland back on bike, don't worry.

 

[benpounder]

What the **** was that driver doing. He should never be allowed to be in any cycling race again.

Looks like the driver was getting sucked into the ditch and overcorrected into Flecha.

 

[superconfex]

think that driver could be looking at jail time

 

[ggusta]

I havent seen someone go flying like Hoogerland since i watched Jeff Hardy do a flying front angle Swanton Bomb off the ladder in Wrestlemania 16.

Dekker, '05 or '06. Potomac would know.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Hoogerland should sue French TV for the damage.

Not only physical, but also for the missed publicity and the missed prize money.

 

[Publicus]

Honestly I don't see any incriminating evidence there. You'd expect the other riders around them to do something if they thought Karpets had done anything wrong on purpose.

Well then I don't know what to tell you. It's fairly straightforward. I have it DVR'd in HD. Clear. As. Day.

If the rider doesn't come forward, then exclude the entire Katusha team.

 

[cineteq]

Hoogerland into the barb wire, insane. The driver should be behind bars tomorrow.

He should sue them, Fkcu!

 

[VeloCity]

yep, perfectly normal first week

 

[Anonymous]

What the hell, if you are given the choice of either sacrificing your left rearmirror to a tree OR taking out two riders of a breakaway OR breaking.... don't take out the riders..

Physics suggests that even if he hadn't swerved, he would have hit the tree on the right front of the car, which would have thrown the car to the right into the riders regardless. In fact, it would probably have been more dramatic.