and there goes cav…
edit: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mark-cavendish-leaves-tour-de-france-to-focus-on-olympic-games/
I understand why… but still feels lame.
Im actually surprised he held out as long as he did. With pretty much nothing but mountain stages and an individual time trial remaining, he would be crazy to haul himself over the alps and potentially ruin his olympic chances.
i'm surprised after all the years of the running of the tdf (ha!) that there always seems to be no shortage of fuckwits clogging up the streets and impeding the race or disturbing the riders.
it's only a matter of time till a rider gets seriously hurt because of those knobs.
The reason behind all this was they had to cut the finish 6km short due to a storm. So all those people had to move somewhere, and they didnt have time to erect barricades inside the last two k's like they would normally have.