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This Afternoon in Bicycle Racing: Head-Butts

Today’s Stage 11 of the Tour de France was looking a snoozefest … until Australian Mark Renshaw started head-butting the guy next to him while jockeying for position. Renshaw was acting as lead-out man for his HTC-Columbia teammate Mark Cavendish, who ended up winning his third stage of this Tour and the thirteenth stage of his career, a Tour record for sprint stages. The head-butt recipient, New Zealand’s Julian Dean, was acting as lead-out man for top American sprinter Tyler Farrar of Team Garmin-Transitions. Post-head-butt, Renshaw moved right in front of Farrar to block him from chasing down Cavendish. He was immediately thrown out of the Tour. Click through to check out the video.

This Afternoon in Bicycle Racing: Head-Butts