Cycling-Tour de France continues in sober mood after Nice attack (Reuters)
* Famous bike race seen as vulnerable to possible attack * After crisis meeting, officials decide to go ahead * Froome: “just could not believe the images … horrific” (Adds rider quotes) By Julien Pretot BOURG-SAINT-ANDEOL, France, July 15 (Reuters) – The Tour de France continued in a low-key but defiant mood under heightened security on Friday, with riders, spectators and race officials observing a minute’s silence for the scores of victims of the Bastille Day attack in Nice. A gunman at the wheel of a heavy truck ploughed into a crowd celebrating France’s national day in the southern city late on Thursday, killing at least 84 people and injuring scores in what President Francois Hollande called a terrorist act.