Tour de France Fan Who Caused Huge Crash Missing As Lawsuit Looms

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Pierre-Yves Thouault, the tour’s deputy director, told AFP on Saturday that race organizers will sue the woman so "the tiny minority of people who do this don’t spoil the show for everyone." Ouest-France reported that day that the woman, whom the outlet speculated was likely German, fled the country by plane.
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"I saw the lady, I saw the sign but there was no time to react," Martin said (via Deutsche Welle). "I still can't understand how people can do things like that. We're here to race our bikes – it's not a circus."

The woman’s sign read, "Allez Opi-Omi." "Allez" is French for "go," whereas "opi" and "omi" are informal German terms for "grandpa" and "grandma."

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