![]() ![]() Promoted as the sequel to the band's 2019 film Bring the Soul: The Movie, it was released on Septemin select countries, with distribution handled by Trafalgar Releasing. Next to that story, I prefer literally everything about Benoît Cosnefroy’s ‘injury’.ĬyclingTips wishes Benoît and Margaux a very happy life together, for richer and poorer, in (fake, social media) sickness and health.Break the Silence: The Movie ( Korean: 브레이크 더 사일런스: 더 무비 RR: Beureikeu Deo Sailleonseu: Deo Mubi) is a 2020 South Korean concert documentary film directed by Park Jun-soo and produced by Big Hit Three Sixty, featuring the behind-the-scenes of boy band BTS' 2018–2019 Love Yourself World Tour. The bone didn’t break the skin, but it is pretty scary when you look down and see that when you are on the side of a riverbank,” he later explained in ghoulish detail. “I lifted my leg, but my foot stayed still, it was kind of hanging off, limp. In 2017, Luke Rowe broke numerous actual bones in his leg on a whitewater rafting trip for a buck’s party. ![]() “We are in the process of putting out the fire,” a team spokesperson drily told Actu, presumably before hanging up and giving Cosnefroy and Paret-Peintre a spray for being so incorrigible. ![]() For some reason even Benoît’s dad, Franck Cosnefroy – the owner of a glorious handlebar moustache, incidentally – was approached for comment, saying that “it was too big to be true … Me, I didn’t believe this plaster story for a single second!”Īs for AG2R-Citroën’s media person on the cusp of winter hibernation, it was probably an enervating couple of hours. Ouest-France admitted they’d been caught out by what was apparently a “perfectly staged joke that fooled many people, including Ouest-France” who had been concerned about Cosnefroy’s “serious injury”. That led to a round of rewrites as publications pretended they were in on the joke the whole time. Within a couple of hours, the truth was revealed – that it was a bit of off-season fun, intended not to create national hysteria but to fluster a fiancée. All of that was enough for numerous outlets including Eurosport, Ouest-France, and BFM to take the bait. Breaking news: broken arm. The aforementioned Boyz dutifully filled in the gaps to keep the story going Cosnefroy’s best man, AG2R teammate Aurélien Paret-Peintre, suggested it was “one round too many of paintball”. Cosnefroy’s comment, roughly paraphrased: “Thanks anyway The Boyz ❤️ □”. Splashed across the picture – “EVG: 1 – BeuBeu: 0” (Beubeu is just one of Cosnefroy’s suite of whimsical nicknames ). There’s a bit to unpack in the above screenshot. So when one of The Boyz posted a picture on their Instagram story with Cosnefroy in a cast, it was panic stations at the sports desk. Unfortunately, Benoît Cosnefroy is not just a lad on the lash, but one of the darlings of French cycling. The Boyz decided to play a social media prank on Cosnefroy’s betrothed, Margaux, wrapping his arm in plaster and pretending he’d broken it. In time-honoured condition, he got The Boyz together for an Enterrement de Vie de Garçon (a buck’s party, but French, abbreviated to EVG). Why? Because Benoît Cosnefroy just fake-newsed the French media into reporting on a fictitious injury, prompting hurried retractions as they realised it was all a prank.īenoît Cosnefroy, a cherubic French cyclist who rides for AG2R-Citroën, is getting married this weekend. Unless I’m dramatically underestimating either the popularity of paintball or its risks, roughly 8 billion other people didn’t break their arms playing paintball last weekend.Īnd yet, here we are. I didn’t break my arm playing paintball last weekend. ![]() In that fact – with all due respect to Mr Cosnefroy – he is not unique. Benoît Cosnefroy didn’t break his arm playing paintball last weekend. ![]()
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