An incident occurred during the Tour de France. A car from the caravan hit a 9-year-old child in Grenoble. The injured had to be taken care of by the emergency services and was hospitalized, indicates 20 Minutes.
The 9-year-old boy’s accident with a Tour de France vehicle took place this Friday, July 15, 2022 during the stage between Le Bourg-d’Oisans (Isère) and Saint-Étienne (Loire), from the research center of the Commissariat for Atomic Energy (CEA) in Grenoble. The publicity caravan knocked over the child who was slightly injured in the accident, specifies The liberated Dauphiné. Firefighters quickly arrived on the scene to treat his foot and transported him to the nearest hospital.
Currently, the Tour du France is in its 16th stage. It takes place in the Pyrenees massif for the first Ariège passes, between Carcassonne and Foix. The 178.5 kilometer route, after two small climbs in the first hour, gets tougher from the Vicdessos valley overlooked by the Montcalm dome, the first “3000 meters” of the chain starting from the Mediterranean.
The ascent is immediately followed by the ascent of Péguère with the impressive slope of its last three kilometers. At the top, there are only 27 kilometers left, often downhill or false flat, to reach the prefecture of Ariège where the finish is judged in the city center as in 2017 during the success of Frenchman Warren Barguil.
Jonas Vingegaard is also still the yellow jersey of the Tour de France. Despite the attacks of Tadej Pogaçar, the Dane resists perfectly and he can also count on the armada of the Jumbo Visma to control the race. The arrival of this 109th edition is scheduled for July 24 in Paris, on the avenue des Champs-Élysées.