<Li> 2000: A 12 - year - old from Ginasservis, known as Phillippe, was hit by a car in the Tour de France publicity caravan . </Li> <Li> 2002: A seven - year - old boy, Melvin Pompele, died near Retjons after running in front of the caravan . </Li> <Li> 2009: 18 July, Stage 14: A spectator in her 60s was struck and killed by a police motorcycle while crossing a road along the route near Wittelsheim . </Li> <P> One rider has been King of the Mountains, won the combination classification, combativity award, the points competition, and the Tour in the same year--Eddy Merckx in 1969, which was also the first year he participated . Had the young rider's jersey been available at the time, he would have won that too . </P>

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