Fan Who Caused Tour de France Crash Faces Suspended Sentence

Fan Who Caused Tour de France Crash Faces Suspended Sentence
Tour de France. Rider Cyril Lemoine of France receives medical attention in Landerneau, France, on June 26, 2021. Anne-Christine Poujoulat/pool via Reuters
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BREST, France—Prosecutors in the trial of a roadside spectator who caused a huge crash on the first stage of the Tour de France in June called on Thursday for a four-month suspended jail sentence, a lawyer for the riders’ union said.

The French woman, who has not been named, sent one cyclist tumbling to the ground, with dozens more falling as they rode into him, in a scene that grabbed global headlines.