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40 Cent
Seems to me it was the oil slick they were protesting. The riders are resigned to the wet cobbles, but oil? I'd rank that before shards of glass and just after spectators throwing flaming bags of their own poop on a list of things I didn't sign up to ride through.
I know right? With the attitude of some posters here you would think the tour riders were a bunch of lazy pansies having an extremely relaxed tour so far. To the morons who haven't figured it out...their race so far has been the exact opposite of easy.
To hell with the promoters trying to organize the race so that the riders face unreasonable dangers just so they can increase ratings.
But the riders being gung-ho competitors as they are will probably race their hearts out tomorrow. I hope nobody gets killed this time. It's a miracle no one got killed in stage 2's disaster.