In the midst of the excitement of the Tour de France, an emergency of a completely different kind disrupted the day's schedule. On Saturday morning, as the roads of Pau were being cordoned off for the start of the fourteenth stage, a woman about to give birth found herself stranded. Contractions were intensifying, and the minutes were counting down. It was at a roundabout that the call for help rang out, both literally and figuratively.
An unprecedented race under police escort
Alerted by the mother-to-be's screams, a police officer on duty immediately grasped the gravity of the situation. Intervention was swift: motorcyclists were dispatched to escort the family vehicle through the cordoned-off roads. The unusual convoy then cut through the city to the hospital, benefiting from an express passage, much more precious than a yellow jersey. The outcome was uneventful, and the child, a little boy, was born healthy. On their Facebook page, the Pyrénées-Atlantiques police officers celebrated this unusual birth by wishing the family "much happiness." A moment of humanity in a day punctuated by breakaways and sprints.
