{"id":670716,"date":"2026-05-14T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670716\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:13:09","slug":"%f0%9f%8e%a5-oh-deer-course-invader-disrupts-the-tour-of-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670716\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfa5 &#8216;Oh deer&#8217; &#8211; course invader disrupts the Tour of Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the shadow of the Giro d&#8217;Italia, this week also sees the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/tour-of-hungary\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tour of Hungary<\/a> taking place. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/tim-merlier\" title=\"tim merlier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Merlier<\/a> (Soudal Quick-Step) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/magnier-who-tim-merlier-reminds-everyone-who-he-is-at-tour-of-hungary\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">won the opening stage there on Wednesday<\/a> \u2014 but day two produced a moment that had nothing to do with racing and everything to do with wildlife.A Bahrain Victorious rider and a Soudal Quick-Step colleague were riding at the front of the peloton during a fairly quiet stretch of racing when <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasaganronald?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2054910751983173945%7Ctwgr%5E6aae3f61a578bbedd4e47055ac6627d525b133e2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdashboard.idlprocycling.com%2Fadmin%2Farticle%2F84673%2Fedit%3Fdraft%3D1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a deer suddenly darted out<\/a> from the left-hand side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>The animal sprinted across the tarmac in blind panic \u2014 and promptly fell over, sliding across the road directly in front of the oncoming riders. Fortunately, it was back on its feet on the other side in an instant and was able to continue on its way. So were the riders.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 Watch: deer (almost) wipes out the Tour of Hungary peloton<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the shadow of the Giro d&#8217;Italia, this week also sees the Tour of Hungary taking place. Tim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,291756,85,172711,323740],"class_list":["post-670716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-cycling-videos","tag-sports","tag-tim-merlier","tag-tour-of-hungary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}