You’ve all seen the footage by now: Richie Porte crashes into an motorbike and Chris Froome is forced to run up Mont Ventoux without a bike.
While the Tour de France yellow jersey holder was struggling, Twitter was ablaze with opinion on whether Froome should keep the lead despite finishing well behind his rivals.
Luckily there was also some humour to be had, but first a great picture posted by Bauke Mollema of the crash he was also caught up in.
This may NOT happen in the biggest race of the World!! There has been too many accidents with motos last year! pic.twitter.com/0JtplDQkUz
— Bauke Mollema (@BaukeMollema) July 14, 2016
Remember that time you dreamed of Chris Froome trotting up a mountain? Yeah, that came true…
The stuff of wacky nightmares, you dream you're leading a stage race and then have to run up the final mountain. Only it was real today
— the Inner Ring (@inrng) July 14, 2016
Someone had to drop the L-bomb.
Lance, the triathlete, would have bossed that.
— Matt Slater (@mjshrimper) July 14, 2016
Froomey tried to use a Mavic neutral service bike, but it was a little on the small side.
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Further pictures emerge of froomey on the mavic service bike. pic.twitter.com/jhUSSeXs89
— Ian Field 🏁🚵 (@FieldyCX) July 14, 2016
Bonnie Ford has a great idea of how to deal with the encroaching crowds.
Also, clone Hinault, station him every 100 meters to toss bodies off course. #TDF2016
— Bonnie D. Ford (@Bonnie_D_Ford) July 14, 2016
And maybe the Vittel water sprays in the caravan need to be a little bit stronger?
Hello @LeTour, may I interest you in one of these? pic.twitter.com/gmQ414xXQI
— 𐌷𐍂𐍉𐌸𐌹𐌻𐌰 (@Hrotha) July 14, 2016
Next thing we’ll know, Froome will have grown a beard and started eating nothing but quinoa…well maybe he already does the latter…
He is such a hipster he gave up cycling to start running
— Camille (@camillemcmillan) July 14, 2016
@CXHairs doesn’t believe the disc brake ban has gone far enough…
Ban disc brakes on motos.
— In The Crosshairs (@CXHairs) July 14, 2016
And Simon Warren’s kids may be a little bit bored by now.
Better go find the kids and tell them what happened, School finished at 3.30, hope they are still there.
— Simon Warren (@100Climbs) July 14, 2016
I’d like to see Usain Bolt doing 100m on a nine per cent gradient.
What a day, Usain Froome still in Yellow…
— Iljo Keisse (@IljoKeisse) July 14, 2016
Among the pictures of Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump was this one of Will Ferrell racing Fabio Aru Sacha Barron Cohen’s character in Talladega Nights.
Froome today. pic.twitter.com/jHxFFhICZP
— Phil Gaimon (@philgaimon) July 14, 2016
Jonathan Vaughters was among the people who thought the correct decision had been made.
UCI judges made the right call on that one…Hopefully it's a fair race going forward.
— Jonathan Vaughters (@Vaughters) July 14, 2016
But poor Adam Yates walked away empty handed.
At least give @AdamYates7 the stuffed lion
— ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 14, 2016
At least the UCI has a sense of humour.
Froome's bike has been found – seat stay broken. Then whisked away to be checked for a motor (seriously) #TDF2016 pic.twitter.com/tp1XNqEm0q
— The Cycling Podcast (@cycling_podcast) July 14, 2016
And Re-Carb didn’t miss the opportunity to try and get a bit of work out of the incident.
Ooohhhhh, that seat stay's gonna need a few hours in the workshop. #TDF pic.twitter.com/RUXnytzOQH
— Re-carb (@Re_carb) July 14, 2016
