CNN —French cyclist Julien Bernard has offered a playful apology after he was fined for stopping to kiss his wife on Friday during a stage of the Tour de France.
At one point, Bernard stopped briefly to kiss his wife, who was holding their child in her arms, as others on the roadside converged on them before parting to let Bernard through again.
“I’d been waiting for this moment since the route was announced last October,” he told local newspaper Le Bien Public.
Danish cyclist Magnus Cort replied to Bernard’s post on X with a video of himself kissing his wife by the roadside and quipped: “What a joke.
“Oh no, no, no.”Bernard eventually finished 61st on the stage, 3:11 behind stage winner Remco Evenepoel.
Persons:
Julien Bernard, “, ” Bernard, Georges, Gevrey, “ Allez, Bernard, “ I’d, ”, Magnus Cort, Lance Armstrong, Armstrong, Remco Evenepoel, CNN’s Eve Brennan
Organizations:
CNN, Tour de France, UCI, Le, de France
Locations:
French, Nuits, Burgundy, Le Bien, Danish