9/1/15 8:46 AM

It amazes me there are not more 'support' vehicle rider accidents, or do we just hear about it when it is a top and highly paid rider like Sagan?

Then there is Kris Boeckmans, wishing him the best. Looks very very serious too!

9/1/15 10:51 AM

They need to bell the cat.

I couldn't find the article, but I recall reading "didn't hear it coming," "they go so much faster through the pack," etc.

9/1/15 3:54 PM

Seems to happen in quite a large number of races these days. I guess there are a lot more vehicles around the riders than there were in past decades - more TV cameras, more still photographers, cars carrying "celebrities", neutral service cars and motorcycles, etc.

9/1/15 4:02 PM

Organisers have apologised to him but have still fined him.

“Sagan was hit by a reckless auxiliary motorbike in the final kilometres of stage 8 and suffered wounds and burns of first and second degree on the left side of his body, from the hip to the lower leg,” his Tinkoff-Saxo team said in a statement.

“In addition, he has a contusion on his left forearm with an intra-muscular hematoma.

“The team doctor, together with the sport directors at the Vuelta, decided that Sagan cannot safely continue the race with the injuries he suffered.

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They said they were sorry....

9/2/15 10:32 AM

Sergio Paulinho was hit by a TV moto today; now in hospital. This was not an isolated incident. An AG2R (can't remember his name) rider was overtaken by a moto on the inside of a downhill bend and elsewhere riders were shouting abuse at the moto guys for getting in the way.

Froome crashed early on and is losing a lot of time. He gave a TV moto guy a bit of an earful as well.

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Wonder if other fines are being given out for the verbal abuse the poor moto captains are enduring??

Like Froome telling the camera moto to FOOOK OFFF!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_zAXwZT80I