Could this be the worst Tour de France crash the famous race has ever seen? It’s certainly one of the most barbaric in the long history of the event.
Let us take you back to 2011, when Johnny Hoogerland and Juan Antonio Flecha were knocked off their bikes by a passing press car, and thrown straight into a barbed wire fence.
Cars and cyclists have never been the best of friends, but you’d expect as few incidents as possible between the two during the most famous cycling race in the world; and you’d expect the press to be as cautious as they possibly can around the riders.
