The organization of the Tour de France has withdrawn its complaint against the spectator who caused a mass fall on the first stage.

The deputy race director Pierre-Yves Thouault told the "L'Équipe" on Thursday that this had happened because of the media hype.

"The attention should belong to the drivers, not the spectators," said Thouault.

The woman had held a cardboard sign on the route on the first section and thus unintentionally triggered a mass fall.

The 30-year-old French woman presented herself to the police on Wednesday.

The police also searched the woman's home.

She was due to be released later that day on Thursday.

She faces a maximum of two years in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros.

But for this you would have to be proven to have endangered the lives of other people.

Meanwhile, "L'Équipe" reported on Thursday that all drivers and attendants tested negative for the corona virus.

On Wednesday after the time trial, the 177 drivers remaining in the race had been tested.

If a team has two corona-positive drivers within seven days, it will be excluded from the tour.

Further tests will take place on the two rest days next Monday in Tignes and on July 12 in Andorra.

Meanwhile, Mark Cavendish has won the sixth stage of the 108th Tour de France in a mass sprint.

The Brit won this Thursday after 160.6 kilometers from Tours to Chateauroux ahead of the Belgian Jasper Philipsen and Nacer Bouhanni from France.

The Dutchman Mathieu van der Pool successfully defended the overall leader's yellow jersey and is eight seconds ahead of defending champion Tadej Pogacar from Slovenia.

Belgian champion Wout van Aert is 30 seconds back third.

The stage had long been shaped by veteran Roger Kluge.

The 35-year-old formed the top group with Belgium's Beijing Olympic champion Greg van Avermaet.

The field kept the distance to the duo constant for a long time, but caught it 2.5 kilometers from the finish and the sprint preparations began.