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Mark Cavendish in Omega Pharma Quick Step kitSpectator sprays Mark Cavendish with urine during Tour de France time trial
Mark Cavendish has had urine thrown at him by a spectator during today’s Stage 11 individual time trial at the Tour de France.
It is unclear whether the incident is linked to yesterday’s controversial sprint finish in Saint-Malo when Cavendish and Argos-Shimano’s Tom Veelers collided.
However, Cavendish’s Omega Pharma-Quick Step team mate Jerome Pineau tweeted that his colleague had been whistled at and even had urine thrown at him during his time trial ride today.
Pineau added: “Yesterday I was so proud about the support all the race but today I am ashamed!!”
According to BBC Sport, Cavendish was said to be “upset and disappointed” over the episode during the 33 kilometre individual time trial from Avranches to Mont-Saint-Michel.
At first, he thought he had been sprayed with water from a bottle by a fan, but apparently realised its was urine as a result of the taste.
In that incident yesterday, Veelers hit the deck hard, and blamed the former world champion for the crash, but neither was sanctioned by the race jury.
Cavendish remained upright to finish third behind Veelers’ team mate Marcel Kittel, who beat Lotto-Belisol’s André Greipel to the line.
Today's individual time trial is currently being led by Cavendish's Omega Pharma-Quick Step colleague Tony Martin, the reigning world champion in the discipline.
Cavendish himself posted the 106th fastest time of the 128 riders to have finished so far.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Interesting tweet:
"why all the sudden shock and outrage. this has been happening for 100 years in some form or another. piss, spit, fists, etc." Lance Armstrong.
He really is the gift that keeps on giving, isn't he?
(N.B. All errors in grammar and punctuation are his.)
Whoops, slow internet needed refreshing, double post.
Add three to my post total.
As if it wasn't hard enough. Regarding the crash, well sprinting for the line IS an agressive business, if you try to steal someones line, well lifes a bitch.
Interferring with the TdF should result in jail!
To be serious for a moment, if I may be the Victor Mature of the commenters, this is a disgraceful act and I hope that the person who did it is paid a visit by the Gendarmerie.
I've heard of "taking the p*ss" but never of "giving the p*ss". Thats a new one to me
I hope the idiot who threw urine got caught!
You swine, I just logged in to crack that exact same joke and you beat me to second place. This must be how Peter Sagan feels.
Who would have thought that Cav would get a yellow jersey in the tt?
how does he know what pee tastes like?
One name....Peta....
Most of your sense of taste is really just smell. I have never tasted pee but I am pretty damn sure I would be able to identify it if I drank some.
Fresh home made Apple juice anyone?
Most of your sense of taste is really just smell. I have never tasted pee but I am pretty damn sure I would be able to identify it if I drank some.
Fresh home made Apple juice anyone?
I hope it wasn't "tainted" urine and that he goes and fails a drugs test now
It could have just been a "Sports Drink" with electrolytes in. Most of them taste like piss.
I laughed, by taste? Yeck. Poor guy
Wonder if ferrari got this when he sent cav down. How spiteful and pathetioc that person must be to do something like this.
BTTL F PSS...
Shouldn't laugh... serious case of harassment...
damnit