I truly don't understand how things like this are possible either, OP.
I mean ... Tony Martin got a flat tire in a TT in the TdF ... WTH?
Me, as a simple recreational TT'er, I never have flats ... not even in thousands of miles ... not even over cobblestones and on belgian crappy roads.
So how can it be that Tony Martin gets two flats in two TT's in the TdF?
Why can't they give that guy tubes like mine?