For some reason, Bradley Wiggins threw his bicycle into a ditch during Monday’s stage to Pau.
The Tour de France leader calmly removed his bottles before jettisoning his Pinarello. And what sort of behaviour is that? You’re never going to win the Bike-Chucking World Championships without completely losing your rag, fella.
But then Brad doesn’t have anything to prove: he already has the bike-chucking bronze medal for throwing his Felt to the ground in disgust during the 2009 world time trial champs in Switzerland.
The standard of Tour de France bike-chucking was set by Bjarne Riis, who takes the second step of the podium for his spirited two-handed throw at the Disneyland time trial in 1997.
But it’s a Brit who is the undisputed King of the Flingers: step forward David Millar, who lost out on a stage win at the 2008 Giro due to a mechanical failure one kilometer from the finish in Contursi Terme. The Garmin man’s chain snapped while he was out of the saddle, causing him to bash his gentlemen’s area on the top tube – and the resultant pain and frustration inspired a magnificent, spinning throw over the barriers.
Bravo, sir!
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