PONTIVY, France—A string of heavy crashes reduced the Tour de France peloton to a heap of wounded bodies on Monday, as a leading sports director called for greater safety at the world’s greatest cycling race.
Two days after a spectator holding a cardboard sign and looking the other way sent Tony Martin and a large section of the peloton tumbling to the deck, Geraint Thomas and Primoz Roglic and others took more tumbles in separate incidents involving no fans at all.
But it was two more pile-ups in a nervy finale on narrow roads that were the main cause for concern in the peloton.
On a left-hand curve with four kilometres left in the 182.9-km stage from Lorient, a massive c…
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