Live blog: Fans arrested for endangering riders on Alpe d'Huez; Ex-pro's journey from paracetamol to MDMA; Video of crash that forced Nibali to abandon + more

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Re: “Glad that Condor live on and in their original address” – As I first remember it, back when some of us still lived in black & white and Madame Thatcher was in her grisly pomp…Condor Cycles used to be on the other side of Grays Inn Road, I can then remember them moving to a larger address a couple of doors along – before they moved to their current location.

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You say that but the phone videos are the best shots we have of the Nibali crash.

Enjoy the racing and maybe set your phone on video but try and take it all in. Whenever I've been on the Alpe it's been a great day but you need the TV coverage to show you what actually happened. Live sport is all too fast.

And yes anyone with a flare needs to be arrested. You'd think that would be pretty easy.

Seeing the Dutch fans letting flares off in the faces of the lead rider on Wednesday and again on D'huez,  this is an assault and those letting them off should be arrested and heavily fined.

RIP to Monty Young, yet another of the old guard to pass away, there are so few left now from those heady days of the late 40s/50s/60s. Glad that Condor live on and in their original address.

As for the Kiwi druggie, sounds like the judge is another wet through type, yeah remorseful my arese, remoreseful that he was caught. Should have got a far heavier sentence, don't want skanks like that 'reconnecting' with cycling thank you very much!

Good work Watlina, I only saw that Nibali was out of shot when he actually fell. Your still frame looks like a flag getting caught in his back wheel.

The person dragging Nibali to his feet was certainly well-intentioned, and maybe it was necessary to get him out of the road for his own safety. It's not the ideal procedure where there's a back injury, though.

When these Grand Tour organisers going to supervise the crowds on these stages is when hell freezes over probably, now that they have partly caused a top rider to retire! Wtf? 

Stepping through the video it appears Nibali either got caught on something dangling from the crowd or was directly pushed. He was not that close to the motorbikes or other riders.

He falls a fraction of a second after this frame. 

Trying to pick my way through that footage above it looks like Nibali's bars may have caught on a camera strap flapping around loosely rather than out of the way around someone's neck! Feel for him, shit way to leave the event.

cant really see the crash, but what it does show is how much of a complete of time videoing anything on a mobile phone is.

enjoy the moment, dont waste your time getting a few flashy images of very little..

Well that's cleared that one up then...

These "fans" are a disgrace  I can only assume these are the same fans who accuse Team Sky of ruining the sport.

Sometimes I wonder if the French would be happier with a Tour de France with only French riders. Though, I'm sure they'd still be unhappy if a Frenchman from a different département won.

Same goes for the twat in the green shorts who gave Froome a sideways push as he rode past.

That Nibali incident is outrageous. How can so called fans sleep at night knowing that they've caused the retirement of a GC contender? These are not fans, they're animals.