Tour de France hit by Scottish-style sabotage with tack attack on riders BRITAIN'S Bradley Wiggins was among about 30 cyclists who suffered punctures after tacks were scattered across the route of the Tour de France yesterday. Organisers confirmed around 30 racers were affected in the peloton - the group of the bulk of riders. Wiggins, 32, and Britain's Team Sky slowed the pace of to allow defending champion Cadel Evans to return to the group. Race official Jean-Francois Pescheux, competitions director said: "The nails were mainly thrown on the ground around 200 metres from the summit. Sky showed they are for fair play. They saw that something had happened and they slowed the peloton so that things could come together for the ride to the finish. The sabotage happened at stage 14 of the race, at the summit of the Mur de Peguere, which is making its debut as a mountain climb in the race. A similar incident struck the 81-mile Etape Caledonia race in Pitlochry, Perthshire, in May 2009 when hundreds of riders got punctures from carpet tacks. A 62-year-old man was later arrested but charges were dropped and nobody else was ever convicted of the crime. Last night, race leader Wiggins - who is aiming to become the first British winner - said slowing down to accommodate the effected riders was "the honourable thing to do." He said: "What can you do? It's something we can't control. There's nothing stopping more of that sort of stuff ­happening. It's sad. Those are the type of things we have to put up with as cyclists. I think people take that for granted sometimes, just how close they can get to us. If that happened in a football stadium, or wherever, you'd be arrested - CCTV. But we're out there, quite vulnerable at times, very close to the public on climbs. We're just the riders at the end of the day and we're there to be shot at, literally.