Pogacar crashes and protester disrupts finish on chaotic Tour de France stage 11

Pogacar crashes and protester disrupts finish on chaotic Tour de France stage 11
  • Norway’s Jonas Abrahamsen wins in Toulouse

  • Pogacar falls 6km from end but quickly back on bike

In a chaotic climax to stage 11 of the Tour de France in Toulouse, Tadej Pogacar crashed at speed before remounting to finish, an anti-Israel protester ran on to the finish line, and the Norwegian Jonas Abrahamsen took his first Grand Tour stage win, for Uno-X.

As Abrahamsen sprinted towards the finish with his final breakaway companion, Mauro Schmid, a male protester, wearing a white T-shirt bearing the slogan “Israel out of the Tour”, jumped the barriers and ran on to the road, before being rugby-tackled by a Tour official, Stephane Boury.

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