A roadside fan who caused a giant crash at the Tour de France on Saturday is to be sued by the organizers. The woman concerned held up a banner slightly into the road and was looking straight at the television motorbike cameras with her back turned on the speeding peloton.
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German rider Tony Martin brushed past her and was knocked off balance racing near the head of the peloton, and when he fell it caused a horrifying domino effect ending in a tangle of bikes and bodies.
"We are suing this woman who behaved so badly," Tour deputy director Pierre-Yves Thouault told French news agency AFP. "We are doing this so that the tiny minority of people who do this don't spoil the show for everyone," he said.
According to regional newspaper Ouest France, the woman who was wearing a yellow jacket fled the scene and has yet to be found.
