Photo: Agence France Presse
On a day marked by a protest which almost delayed the peloton in the middle of the race, a smaller protest
marred the presentation of the stage winner, Samuel Dumoulin. While race director Christian Prudhomme dealt diplomatically with the protesters in the middle of the race, allowing them some camera time, and prevailing on them not to block the riders as they passed, 5-time Tour winner Bernard Hinault handled the lone protester on the podium a little differently. Hinault shoving the idiot off the stairs is consistent with how he dealt with protesters along the Tour route in the 1980's, usually by hurtling straight into the mob, and scattering them if they did not get out of his way.
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