Brilliantly won by Frenchman Victor Lafay, the third stage of the Tour de France was marked by a number of suspicious punctures on Sunday on the road to San Sebastian, in the Spanish Basque Country. Several riders have indeed complained of having punctured after having rolled over nails and tacks in the final. Among them, Guillaume Martin who had “good legs” but punctured “just before arriving on the last ascent”, like two of his teammates at Cofidis.
“We wonder if some spectators did not throw tacks on the road,” reported the leader of the Cofidis team. Lilian Calmejane, he is convinced. “Thank you for this kind of human bullshit… I don’t think I was the only victim of a puncture in the final. Know that you can fall and hurt yourself very badly with your bullshit bunch of morons, ”wrote the runner from Intermarché-Circus, very upset by posting a video of his front tire riddled with nails on social networks.