Joan of Arc against Henry the Sixth, Napoleon against Wellington, Churchill against de Gaulle. Anglo-Franco relationships have certainly had no love lost over the years.
The history of the Tour de France, or “la Grande Boucle” (“the Big Loop”) as the French call it, is packed full of bizarre accidents, crashes and pile-ups. (Johnny Hoogerland in hospital. Photo: Profimedia.cz)
Pushy spectators running on to the road screaming and yelling insults while grabbing at the riders as they pass by is all too a familiar scene nowadays. (Photo: Profimedia.cz)
