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Video: Rotterdam fan lunges, falls in attempt to grab a rider’s water bottle at the 2015 Tour de France

This, right here, is what a cycling fan's ultimate dedication can look like.

This, right here, is what a cycling fan’s ultimate dedication can look like.

In baseball, it’s common to witness the industriousness of fans in trying to collect a memento of the game, whether it’s a ball or an errantly-hurled bat. The cycling equivalent, of course, tends to happen at a much faster pace. For example, it might be when a rider passes an assembly of spectators at breakneck speed and discards an empty water bottle, a souvenir that, if found at the Tour de France, can be right up there with the Holy Grail.

On the streets of the Netherlands, the UK’s Metro reports, that exact scenario happened.

Tossing a water bottle to one side, the rider kept going with the peloton. The fan, though, standing on a narrow island of Rotterdam asphalt, leaped at the opportunity to take a physical chunk of the action — literally, if accidentally.

Not about to do something so measured and contained as walk over to pick it up, the fan breaks into a run towards the bottle. But his momentum, it seems, gets the better of him. Appearing to trip over his feet, he falls, tumbling along the ground with his arms outstretched in an attempt to seize it. It looks painful, for sure. Still, he got it.

After a day of crashes that also looked pretty agonizing, it’s interesting to see that it’s not always just the cyclists who walk away from the Tour with a few bruises.