Anyone remember this incident?

[Bicycle]

I cannot find any reference to an incident I vaguely remember from a (quite) few years ago.

I believe it was TdF.

I believe it was a mountain stage.

A rider (I believe Italian) was winning a stage by some margin and approaching the finish line.

An amateur photographer stepped out as he rode up and crouched for the shot of a lifetime.

He seemed to have forgotten which lens he was using, as he failed to move out of the way.

The rider hit him and fell, but recovered enough to make it over the line.

I may be remembering incorrectly, but I have a clear picture in my mind yet have failed to find any reference anywhere to the incident.

Probably late 80s or early 90s.

Anyone else remember it and know the year, race, stage, rider etc... or still have the picture but not want to admit it was them?

 

[Cheddar George]

Alpe d'huez .... 1999 ..... TDF..... Giuseppe Guerini.

I could only remember it was on the Alpe d'huez but sure enough it gets a mention on the wikipedia page.

 

[ColinJ]

It was stage 10 of the 1999 Tour de France. Giuseppe Guerini was riding for the win when he was felled by a young spectator stepping front of him to take a picture.

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOK6JiQONjE[/media]


Curses - beaten to it while I was finding the video!

 

[Angelfishsolo]

It was stage 10 of the 1999 Tour de France. Giuseppe Guerini was riding for the win when he was felled by a young spectator stepping front of him to take a picture.

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOK6JiQONjE[/media]


Curses - beaten to it while I was finding the video!

Encyclopaedic knowledge or a bloody good googler????

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Alpe d'huez .... 1999 ..... TDF..... Giuseppe Guerini.

I could only remember it was on the Alpe d'huez but sure enough it gets a mention on the wikipedia page.

Encyclopaedic knowledge or a bloody good googler????

 

[calibanzwei]

4m 58s
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=4dBvJkqv0DM


Daarrrrrrnnnnnnnnnn, beaten to it - twice!

 

[Cheddar George]

Encyclopaedic knowledge or a bloody good googler????

To be honest i wasn't expecting it to be mentioned on the Alpe d'Huez Wiki page.

I eagerly await my prize

 

[Angelfishsolo]

To be honest i wasn't expecting it to be mentioned on the Alpe d'Huez Wiki page.

I eagerly await my prize

If you send me a £25 administration fee I will send you your golden anorak worth over £2500

 

[Bicycle]

Blimey!

You people are fast. Thank you very much to all who replied.

That's the one; but you already knew that, didn't you?

Doesn't it seem like centuries ago now that helmets weren't mandatory?

Also (even though he didn't win that day), isn't there something relentless and metronome-like about LA climbing?

I'm not a fan of his and didn't will him on to any of his tour wins, but that really is a machine, isn't it?

I used to love it when the bikes had his face on camera and it just never seemed to change...

Impressive, whatever he had for breakfast.

 

[User269]

I remember it like it was yesterday!

It was eric the photographer wot dunnit.

 

[ColinJ]

Encyclopaedic knowledge or a bloody good googler????

I remembered that it was an Alpe d'Huez stage of the TdF and that it was an Italian rider whose name began with G, but I had to Google it to get the details right!

I'd already been watching the TdF for over 10 years by then so I was a big fan.

The rider met the young man later and they had a 'little chat' about the incident!

 

[Angelfishsolo]

I remembered that it was an Alpe d'Huez stage of the TdF and that it was an Italian rider whose name began with G, but I had to Google it to get the details right!

I'd already been watching the TdF for over 10 years by then so I was a big fan.

The rider met the young man later and they had a 'little chat' about the incident!

I bet he did!!!!!

 

[ColinJ]

I bet he did!!!!!

It wasn't as angry an encounter as you'd expect because Guerini managed to get back on his bike and win the stage and he wasn't badly injured. If he'd broken a collarbone and had to abandon, I think the words he used might have been a bit stronger!

 

[MontyVeda]

It wasn't as angry an encounter as you'd expect because Guerini managed to get back on his bike and win the stage and he wasn't badly injured. If he'd broken a collarbone and had to abandon, I think the words he used might have been a bit stronger!

or hit his delicate unprotected head on the floor and died instantly!

 

[Scoosh]

ITV4 showed that during their coverage of this year's journey up Alpe d'Huez and it struck me that the cyclist, being very tired after the hard climb, made a misjudgement and went to the left - when surely the right was the more 'obvious' or 'natural' direction for him to go.

The photographer was much nearer to the left side of the road ...