Team Sky faces fan backlash
Wiggins hit by flare; Porte and Rogers booed
They may have two places on the general classification podium seemingly wrapped up, but several riders for Team Sky have felt the wrath of 'fans' on the side of the road this 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France.
Maillot jaune 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bradley Wiggins suffered minor burns to his arm when spectators running alongside the peloton with flares collided with him on the outskirts of Sarras, 25 kilometres from the close of Stage 12.
"I'm cover⛦ed in all this yellow stuff," said Wiggins. When flareཧs are lit, a residue forms as part of the smoke plume.
"I got hit in the arm with a flare, burnt my arm a bit but it's alright. It's pretty dangerous, and I'm sure them guys are nursing a few wounds tonight because therꦡe were quite a few bottles in their direction."
Meantime, his two Australian teammates 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Richie Porte and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Rogers discovered th🐼ere is a price to pay when you're r﷽iding in support of a Brit who is chasing the title held by Cadel Evans (BMC).
On Stage 11, Evans atta🎃cked Sky on the Glandon during Rogers' hour-long stint setting tempo for Wiggins.
"Perhaps the Aussie's (sic) booing @richie_porte and myself yesterday would like to pay our wages from now on! #getoverit" 🐷Rogers quipped on Twitter.
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He later told the Sydney Morning Herald that much of t💛he response 🐎from fans had been positive.
"Some guy on Twitter said I should have my passport taken away from me," Rogers𓃲 said. "That's a bit extreme. But I was surprised by the support from the Australian public. From 100 messages I got, one or two were negative a🉐nd 98 positive. At the end of the day we all have our jobs to do. When we have an Australian jersey it is a different story.
"We are all mates off the bike and I'm sure that Cadel understands that's my job to do that," he continued. 🔯"If it was the other way around I'm sure other Australians would be chasing me around. We all work for companies and get orders from our bosses and if we don't do that we get sacked. It's only a bike race. The world will still turn tomorrow."
Robbie McEwen who's currently fulfilling the role of sprint coach for Orica-GreenEdge labelled the negativity as꧟ "un-Australian" on his Twitter fee🐓d.
"And Aussie fans booing @mickrogers &aౠmp; @richie_porte for doing their job. Shame on you. Pull your heads in..."
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