[CRASH – Cris Froome] Tour de France 2016 – Stage 12

July 14, 2016
Tour de France 2016 – Stage 12 [FULL STAGE] – Montpellier – Mont Ventoux-Chalet Reynard – 178 km (Mountain stage)

Chris Froome (Sky), Richie Porte (BMC), and Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) were clear of the other contenders when they were swarmed by a horde of fans outside the barriers of the final kilometer. The camera motorbike was halted by the crowd, and Porte crashed into it. Froome’s bike was broken in the mayhem, and he had to run up the climb until neutral support could give him a bike. But the machine did not fit, and by the time Froome finally got one his own bikes with 500m to go and rode across the line, he was 1:14 behind the Quintana group and 1:40 behind Mollema.

The incident nullified his time-gaining attack, and the race jury would have to decide how to sort out the time gaps. Provisionally, Adam Yates claimed the maillot jaune, with Mollema at 9 seconds and Quintana at 14. Froome tumbled to sixth overall at 53 seconds.