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Fan treated and Movistar rider out after Alpe d'Huez vehicle incidents
A spectator was treated by Tour medical staff after an apparent collision with an EF team car driver, while a Movistar rider quit after hitting a UAE vehicle.
Chaotic scenes on Alpe d'Huez
A spectator was treated by the Tour de France's medical staff after being involved in an apparent collision with the driver of an EF Education-EasyPost team car during chaotic scenes on Alpe d'Huez.
The incident came as hundreds of thousands of fans gathered on the iconic 13.8km ascent, creating the kind of dense roadside environment where race vehicles, riders, and spectators are operating with very little margin. That matters because climbs like Alpe d'Huez are not just sporting theatres - they are also logistical stress tests, with team cars and race personnel trying to move through a corridor packed with people.
The same report also says a Movistar rider was forced to quit the race after slamming into the back of a UAE vehicle. For the rider and team, that turns a vehicle interaction into a race-ending incident, which is the clearest measure of its sporting impact.
Taken together, the incidents point to the same underlying issue: on the Tour's most crowded climbs, the boundary between spectacle and safety can become extremely thin.
Full details are at the linked road.cc source.
Source: road.cc