Tour de France: Road runner Chris Froome stays in yellow on day of drama

On a day that will go down in Tour de France history for the sheer pandemonium that ensued, two-time winner Chris Froome clung to the yellow jersey.

The 12th stage of the race had carnage written all over it long before the flag dropped yesterday — and even before race officials decided to shorten the stage by six kilometres because of gale-force winds at the summit where the peloton was scheduled to head.

However, nobody could have forecast the yellow jersey-clad and bike-less Froome running up the final few hundred metres to the finish at Chalet Reynard after a crazy pile-up involving a police motorbike.