A CHINESE PEDESTRIAN who walked seemingly unaware into the middle of the road as a pack of professional cyclists hurtled past caused chaos and a huge pile-up in China.
As the first stage of the Tour of Qinghai Lake approached the finish line in Xining a spectator decided to try to use a pedestrian crossing traversing the route, footage showed.
The leaders managed to avoid him by centimetres but he carried on into the middle of the peloton, sending riders tumbling like dominoes.
Scores of the field were brought down and organisers said on social media that six cyclists were injured in the incident, which happened towards the end of the first stage on Sunday.
The 19-year-old was detained by police while security officials and the officers responsible have been suspended, they added.
The 14-day competition features 23 teams racing through northwestern China and is a 2.HC contest, the second grade in UCI rankings. It started in 2002 and is billed as the “world’s highest-altitude bike race”.
The Tour de France had its own drama days ago when reigning champion Chris Froome, together with two other cyclists, crashed into a motorbike that was brought to a standstill by a wall of fans.
Froome initially seemed to have lost the race lead after his bicycle was broken by the crash, leaving him at one point running desperately along the road waiting for a replacement bike.
(C) AFP 2016
Micheál Schlingermann grew up in County Mayo and represented his County in the 2009 All Ireland minor football final at Croke Park against Armagh.
And your point is ….
heineken ….
Poor performance from City.
Alan Bennett was a big loss in defence but credit to Sligo came to Cork and got a unexpected win.
Huge game against Bohs on Friday night.
Grimes deserves a chance in goal now for City!
Schlingermann and cretaro are both Irish with Irish accents but they are not Irish names. Anyone know where those two families are originally from?
Cretaro’s father is from Italy
Cretaro is from Tubbercurry Co. Sligo and Schlingerman is from kiltimagh Co. Mayo
Would have been huge game if City had won. League gone now, need to concentrate on trying to finish 2nd and have a good cup run.Dundalk way ahead of City in class.Maybe 3 or 4 years time might start catching them but not at the moment. Hope there won,t be any “european hangover” excuses.Sligo better team tonight, 2 chances 2 goals. City 4 or 5 chances no goals. Bad sign when City fans begging for penalties; if you can;t score from open play its not saying much.Negative rant i know but its hard to be positve leaving the Cross tonight.
Jesus they’re only 6 points behind. They also have a game in hand. With Dundalk having European football to concentrate on possibly they’ll slip up in the league and maybe cork might seize their chance. But my point is…..the league is far from over.
I know Sean,but why should we have to wait for someone to “slip up” or be tired from european games? I,d like to see City win it on merit, fair scrap from start to finish.A bit old school maybe but thats my opinion. Even if they win it now, people will say its only because Dundalk had so many european games.
Srfc
That spoofer Caulfield is the one holding Cork back. He’s a non league manager. They have the players, but City will win nothing as long as he’s in charge.
What would any other manager do any differently?