{"id":8571,"date":"2025-07-19T17:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8571\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T17:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:30:17","slug":"tour-de-france-spectator-hit-by-ineos-grenadiers-team-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8571\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France spectator hit by INEOS-Grenadiers team car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      CNN<br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdafwsm1006p27p19mjngrno@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A spectator at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/19\/sport\/letape-du-tour-amateurs-cyclists-spt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France<\/a> was hit and knocked to the ground by an INEOS-Grenadiers car during the 14th stage of the race on Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BenjiNaesen\/status\/1946575742575210696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">TV footage<\/a> appeared to show.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdafwxis00023b6mkh8leno1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The incident occurred on the Col de Peyresourde mountain pass in the central Pyrenees, about 200 meters from the crest of the hill, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/en\/tour-de-france-spectator-hit-by-ineos-grenadiers-team-car-2025-07-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters<\/a>. The car was driving in the middle of the road when it struck the spectator.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdafwxis00033b6m1zyu7jjc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The condition of the spectator is not yet known. CNN has reached out to INEOS-Grenadiers and the Tour de France for comment.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdafwxis00043b6mdwwy2e7h@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Spectators lining the route of cycling\u2019s most famous race is part of the Tour\u2019s unique atmosphere \u2013 but this means that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/07\/16\/sport\/tour-de-france-crash-spt-intl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crashes<\/a> in the Tour de France are commonplace \u2013 two years ago, a number of riders fell after a fan apparently tried to take a picture during Stage 15.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdafwxis00053b6m8nz0ixuj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Meanwhile, in 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/26\/sport\/fan-crash-tour-de-france-stage-one-spt-intl\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a fan stepped in front of the racing pack <\/a>holding a cardboard sign, causing dozens of cyclists to crash during the Tour.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdafwxis00063b6m8qr9k4we@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            INEOS rider Thymen Arensman claimed his first stage win in Saturday\u2019s race, with Tadej Poga\u010dar extending his overall lead by finishing second, one place ahead of his closest challenger, Jonas Vingegaard.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdafwxis00073b6m5t71nwvd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Olympics gold medalist Remco Evenepoel was forced to abandon the race after struggling on the first climb of the stage.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 A spectator at the Tour de France was hit and knocked to the ground by an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-8571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}