The Tour de France is “a massive televisual spectacle” to quote the organiser Christian Prudhomme, but the small screen’s contribution was less than glorious 36km from the finish. A car driving personnel from the French channels that cover the Tour collided with the cyclists in the winning escape, sending Juan-Antonio Flecha of Team Sky crashing to the floor while the Dutchman Johnny Hoogerland went flying over him and landed in a barbed wire fence.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/jul/10/tour-de-france-johnny-hoogerland