Mark Cavendish has been jeered by crowds and reportedly had urine thrown at him during today's time trial at the Tour de France.

The British cyclist was involved in a controversial crash near the end of yesterday's 10th stage.

But race comissaries had ruled that he bore no responsibility for the incident.

Yesterday he was involved in an angry confrontation with a journalist who had asked him whether he was responsible for the crash.

Cavendish gabbed the tape recorder from the reporter's hand and initially refused to give it back.