daxr

well, I can recall dogs wandering into the road and taking riders out, a photographer taking out the leader on Alp d'huez, LA having to elbow his way through spectators on poorly organized climbs, others hit with cell phones, cut with those big green hands, unpopular riders getting spit on, many instances of gravel in the road on hairpin descents taking riders out, melted fresh tar on a descent basically ended Beloki's career, there have been confusing course directions and wrong turns, motorcycle cameramen regularly get yelled at to get out of the way...etc.

Crap happens. They have a lot more experience and very high expectations over there, but crap still happens.