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Men In Bikinis? Alberto Contador Fighting A Spectator? That’s Friday At The Tour de France

Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck took the Tour de France yellow jersey Friday on a commanding performance up the Alpe d’Huez.

More importantly, the mountain brought out some true freaks, both of whom earned a violent reaction — the first from a gendarme, the second from last year’s champion. The incidents were only two of a strange 19th stage of a Tour noted so far more for its bizarre incidents than its masterful riding.

First, bikini man, who takes a nasty horse collar at the end (follow the lower left-hand side of the screen to follow his fate:

So many questions emerge from this. Did the man come all the way from Down Under to support Aussie rider Cadel Evans? Is he an expat? Is he a Frenchman who simply has a favorite rider and decided beachwear transvestism was the best way to display this support?

Even wackier was the fan who got a smack in the face from 2010 champion Alberto Contador:

Was that Hawkeye Pierce? What was he trying to give Contador? A stethoscope?

One wishes the late Dr. Thompson were still with us to explain, as it appears from Friday’s events the Tour de France is Decadent and Depraved.