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Throughout the Tour de France, Australian professional cyclist Richie Porte will be checking in. Here is his latest entry, as told to ESPN contributor Rupert Guinness:Stage 12: Montpellier to Mont Ventoux, 178 kilometres (110.6 miles)There are limits to what is fair in sport, or what is not. And on Thursday, what we saw during Stage 12 of the Tour de France on Thursday -- when Chris Froome, Bauke Mollema and I crashed near the finish at Mont Ventoux as we were taking time on our rivals -- was clearly not fair at all.I know many have watched the video replay of the crash over and over again. It was caused by a television motorbike grinding to a halt with about 1.2 kilometres to go due to fans blocking the roadway. I went straight into the motorbike with Froome and Mollema following.At the end of the day, the right decision was made to give myself and Froome the same time for the stage as Mollema, which meant Froome kept the leaders yellow jersey. As for me, I gained some places on the overall classification, moving up from 14th to 11th overall, still 2:22 behind Froome.The race jurys decision was one it had to take. The Tour has become out of control with the crowd numbers, and their behaviour has become increasingly dangerous.Look, I really love the fans, and 99 percent of them are brilliant. I agree that you come to the race to have a good time, but you dont need to be running beside the riders, you dont need to be pushing riders, hitting riders. Things have got to change. With what happened Thursday, I cant believe there werent more barriers there. (Editors note: Because the distance of Stage 12 was shortened due to gale-force winds, organizers had not brought more barriers down from the initial finish at the summit of Mont Ventoux.)So what can be done to avert a repeat of Thursdays fiasco? Who knows ... the police were there. Why werent they being utilised more? But right now, I want to resume racing the Tour, hoping simultaneously that troubles like Thursdays are behind me.I was lucky that I was not more seriously injured in the stack. I have trained so hard for this. Yeah, OK, now I get the same time as Mollema on the stage ... but I also crashed, and now Im sore on the eve of such a crucial stage -- Fridays Stage 13, a 37.5-kilometre time trial from Bourg Saint Andeol to La Caverne du Pont dArc.In the morning, I will see how exactly I am feeling. I havent taken much skin off or anything, but the fact of the matter is, it shouldnt have happened. That is what hurts the most. Vans Old Skool Australia Sale . World champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia won the gold medal with 237.71 points, Moore-Towers and Moscovitch followed at 208.45 and Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov of Russia were third at 187. Adidas NMD Australia Cheap . 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Great Britains mens 4x100 metres relay quartet avoided the baton blunders which have plagued them over recent seasons to coast into the final of the European Championships on a night of two more bronze medals for the team in Amsterdam.A strong line-up of James Dasaolu, Adam Gemili, James Ellington and Chijindu Ujah took no risks with safe changeovers to come home in the European-leading time of 38.12 seconds and qualify fastest for Sundays final at the Olympic Stadium.Steph Twell then battled to bronze over 5,000 metres, her first major medal since a third-placed finish at the 2010 Commonwealth Games following a succession of injury problems, and Julian Reid secured a bitter-sweet third-placed finish in the triple jump.Britains men may be the defending sprint relay champions in the Dutch capital, but their recent relay record makes sorry reading.They have been disqualified from the last four global championships, including London 2012, and most recently at last years World Championships in Beijing after which team members turned on each other.They are after a clean run in Amsterdam to ensure they head to the Olympics in Rio in the best possible form to take on Jamaica and the United States.Ellington, who finished fifth in the individual 100m, said: We just wanted to get it around as smoothly as possible. I think those bends are really tight in lane one as well, so to run 38.12 in the semi-final gives us a lot of confidence heading into the final.Ujah bore the brunt of his team-mates criticism in Beijing, but the tensions which spilled over on that occasion now appear to have been settled.Gemili, who withdrew from the individual 100m to focus on the relay, said: We are all running very fast so we are pushing each other to make the team.The womens quartet of Asha Philip, newly-crowned Europeann 200m champion Dina Asher-Smith, Bianca Williams and Daryll Neita also enjoyed serene progress in 42.dddddddddddd59secs.There was happy news too for Twell, a former world junior 1500m champion whose promising career was hampered by a badly broken ankle in 2011 and then a foot injury which ruled her out of London 2012.She dug in to clinch bronze over 5,000m, coming home in 15:20.70, just 0.16 behind Swedens Meraf Bahta. Laura Whittle was fifth and Eilish McColgan sixth.Britain are favourites for all four relays here and the 4x400m teams too are determined to make statements of intent ahead of the Olympics.Both quartets ran European-leading times, despite not fielding full-strength line-ups, to breeze into their respective finals.The womens team of Eilidh Doyle, Margaret Adeoye, Kelly Massey and Seren Bundy-Davies clocked 3:26.42, while the mens four of Rabah Yousif, Delano Williams, Nigel Levine and Jarryd Dunn came home in 3:01.63.Britain won world bronze in both events in Beijing and believe they are well placed to make the podium again in Brazil.The men can bring in the likes of two-time European champion Martyn Rooney and British champion Matthew Hudson-Smith, while the women can still call on British number one Emily Diamond, European bronze medallist Anyika Onuora and two-time world champion Christine Ohuruogu.Robbie Grabarz and Chris Baker made equally light work of high jump qualifying, Grabarz producing three first-time clearances and Baker four to achieve the automatic qualifying mark of 2.25m.Andy Pozzi was forced to pull out of the 110m hurdles final, feeling a cramp in his calf during the warm-up and sensibly not taking any fitness risks ahead of Rio. 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