Cycling-Froome retains Tour lead despite Ventoux chaos (Reuters)
* Froome’s bike broken in incident involving motorbike * Team Sky rider seen running up the Ventoux * Retains yellow and leads fellow Briton Yates by 47 seconds By Julien Pretot MONT VENTOUX, France, July 14 (Reuters) – Defending champion Chris Froome retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey on the Tour de France despite being left without a bike following an incident involving a motorbike in a farcical finale to the 12th stage on Thursday. The Briton’s bike was broken in a pile-up close to the finish and the Team Sky rider began running up the slopes of the Mont Ventoux before grabbing a service bike which did not fit. Froome was then given a spare Team Sky bike on which he completed the 178-km stage, losing over a minute to his main rivals, only for the race jury to rule that he would be credited with the same time as the two riders he was with when the incident occurred.