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A few hours after the accident of Anais Chevalier, invested by a car while riding a bike and victim of a clavicle fracture, another French biathlete was the protagonist of a bad disavventure. This is Simon Fourcade, involved in a real fight with a motorist, reonated that he "made the hair" while he was training on the skirolls.
Thursday 25 May 2017 4 minutes reading time
These extracts from the long story written on their Facebook profile from thirty-four transalpines:
"I and two friends were training with the skirolls on a public road. We were skiing in Indian row, we were on the right of the track and there was no one coming in the opposite lane. We were not bothering anyone and anyone could Surpass us without any problems.
Instead a driver driving a pickup did not find anything better than playing the horn as an idiot and getting us naked. It has passed to no more than 30 centimeters. Very close, too close. In fact, my stick hit the body of his car.
So what does he do? She stops her car ten feet ahead of us and we see a fat guy dropped off, it was 1.70 for 85kg, which did not seem open to dialogue at all. So I was not surprised to hear him shouting that we, wheelers, were a real public danger as well as' 'all those fuckin' cyclists' '. All while his pickup was stationary in the middle of departmental road 25, between Premanon and Lamoura.
However, the tones of the discussion were soon strong, with great shots of "cogl..ne", "head of ca..o" and other delicacies of the genre. At one point, he pulled me a head, not very strong but precise. I was about to pull a skiroll on my teeth if my friend Bertrand did not get in the middle. Maybe that's better so, because violence does not solve anything. The conversation continued for a few seconds before each one resumed his journey.
Here is another case to add to the long series of wrongs to the weaker on the road. I'm sorry to play the part of Calimero, but I have not yet seen a bike crushing a car. Some have been less fortunate than me, such as my colleague Anais Chevalier who finds himself with a broken collarbone or who has not woken up.
I wonder what the authorities are to take serious and concrete measures. There are solutions: awareness, repression, sanction or even denunciation. Next time you are slowed down by a cyclist, ask yourself whether you would overtake the same, without visibility and without thinking, even a tractor or a crane, which rarely go faster than bikes.
Meanwhile, I have a bad nose. "
The striking figure is that Simon Fourcade is the second disadvantage of this genre. In June 2015, always during a skiroll training, you had to throw in a ditch to avoid being invested. As if that were not enough, the driver of the car threatened him with an ax.
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