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Tour de France 2021: Tony Martin, who was hit by roadside fan with sign, out after second crash
FirstpostWednesday’s stage saw the Jumbo rider fall into a ditch just outside the Provence town of Sorgues shortly after the departure for a double ascent of the Tour’s most famous climb, the Mont Ventoux. German rider Tony Martin exited the Tour de France by ambulance early on stage 11 on Wednesday after suffering face and leg injuries when tumbling into a deep roadside ditch, having been at the centre of a crash-marred opening day that saw a fan knock half the peloton down. Martin was the rider who collided with a roadside fan brandishing a sign last week that caused a spectacular mass pile-up on stage one from the Atlantic port city of Brest. The woman held up a sign reading in French and German ‘Allez Opi Omi’ and stepped out into the route of the oncoming peloton to flash her sign at motorbike mounted television cameras.
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