Stephen Cumming (MTN-Qhubeka) timed his ride to perfection on stage 14 of the Tour de France to beat the home favourites of Romain Bardet (AG2R-La Mondiale) and Thibaut Pinot (FDJ). The history making ride had added importance with it also being Mandela day.
There was a sour note on the stage though as race leader Chris Froome (Team Sky) had urine thrown at him by a spectator in the early part of the day, his teammate Luke Rowe was spat at, and BMC's Rohan Dennis complained of being punched by a spectator. Happily for Froome though, he managed to increase his lead over second place with Tejay van Garderen getting dropped on the final climb.
Chris Froome (Team Sky)
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“As far as the racing goes, the team did a really great job getting me to that final climb and up that final climb I just controlled Quintana and rode my own tempo up there. Just kept things under control.
"Unfortunately there was an incident out on the road. A spectator in the early part of the race had a cup of urine, they threw it into my face and said dopé, like that. It’s extremely wrong and on so many different levels and I’m extremely disappointed about that. It’s not in the name of sport.
"I think a lot of the reporting on the race has been very irresponsible and I blame those individuals for that. Those individuals know who they are. Having said that, we’ve had fantastic support. We’ve had a great number of fans out on the road and I want to thank them and the media, a lot of them have been fantastic around this race, in just wanting to talk about the race. That’s what people want to see. Unfortunately some people ruin it for everyone else."
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