Stage interrupted: chaos at the Tour de France

The incident occurred a good 36 kilometers from the finish in Megève. At the time, the Italian Alberto Bettiol was in the lead, having broken away from a large breakaway group with the German professional cyclist Lennard Kämna. The peloton was a good seven minutes behind.

TV images showed up to 20 demonstrators on the street setting off pyrotechnics. Several activists wore white T-shirts that read “We have 989 days left.” The demonstrators were pulled off the street by the police. “With the government not caring about the climate crisis, we must come and take over the Tour de France to refocus attention on what is important for our survival,” said the climate activist movement Derniere Renovation in a message.

“We must force our government to respond as they lead us to the slaughterhouse,” it continued. The Italian Alberto Bettiol, who was leading at the time, drove through a cloud of pink smoke and was stopped shortly afterwards by the race management about 36 km from the finish in Megéve. This neutralized the race and all drivers had to stop. After about ten minutes, the field of drivers continued driving at the same intervals as before.

Back at the French Open in June, an activist from Derniere Renovation interrupted the men's semifinal between Croatia's Marin Cilic and Norway's Casper Ruud by tying herself to the net and wearing a T-shirt that read, "We have 1.028 days left." “. Cort takes the stage win Magnus Cort was the first to reach the finish. The Dane prevailed in the finish sprint from a breakaway group ahead of the Australian Nick Schultz and won his second stage of the Tour. Top favorite Tadej Pogacar crossed the finish line in 20th place, 8:54 minutes behind and defended his yellow jersey just ahead of German Bora professional Lennard Kämna, who finished tenth on the day and reduced his gap to eleven seconds.

The top favorites didn't go at full speed as the first two difficult mountain stages in the Alps await in the next few days. On Wednesday, among other things, the Col du Galibier has to be overcome, as well as on Thursday with the infamous finish in Alpe d'Huez.

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Stage interrupted: chaos at the Tour de France

The tenth stage of the 109th Tour de France was interrupted on Tuesday after protesters blocked the road. The pictures are here.

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