Tour de France Tour de France 2023, stage 14: Annemasse - Morzine, 151.8k

[RobertCrawley]

I don't want to sound insensible or something but my only focus is to see Pogi and Vinge good. Sometimes, I forgot they are all human beings with beautiful families praying and waiting for them. Shame on me.

This will be a little test of the body to shut everything down and get going again. I think a lot of them would like to be on rollers right now.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Berthet looked very bad on the floor when it first happened; Peters also has plenty of scuff marks on the jersey.

 

[Red Rick]

Anyone got a replay of the crash?

 

[Rollthedice]

Pog is bored to death

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

This will be a little test of the body to shut everything down and get going again. I think a lot of them would like to be on rollers right now.

So van Aert to accidentaly drop Vingegaard on the Cat 3, and just blindly rides for 20k without looking back or listening to the radio with Pog on his wheel?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Okay, it‘s being delayed more.

 

[Volderke]

Anyone got a replay of the crash?

a slight curve to the right in a downhill, suddenly a rider (Lotto?) sliding somewhere around 15-20th position in the peloton.
Not a place where you expect a crash, but if it happens, there is no avoiding for all others.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Meintjes DNF

 

[Samamba]

I think Van Gils crashes first yeah. Not sure really what happens but he seems to be hitting the deck first.

 

[ppanther92]

Meintjes out - that sucks…

 

[RobertCrawley]

a slight curve to the right in a downhill, suddenly a rider (Lotto?) sliding somewhere around 15-20th position in the peloton.
Not a place where you expect a crash, but if it happens, there is no avoiding for all others.

It's really hard to tell what happened. It didn't really look like a touch of a wheel. More like the bike slid out from under him on the curve.

 

[Volderke]

Meintjes DNF

Collarbone.

also DNF Pedrero, but it seems those are the only ones.
Waiting for ambulances now.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Meintjes DNF

That's really sad.

 

[Elos Anjos]

Bernal: You kids don't know squat. Back in my day they only neutralized stages when there was an avalanche.

 

[tobydawq]

Just a few days ago I was thinking it was a bit strange how we never see crashes in the break formation phase of the stages. Well...

 

[RobertCrawley]

Bernal: You kids don't know squat. Back in my day they only neutralized stages when there was an avalanche.

That was quite a day.

 

[Potomac]

ok.ok ok....hot chick on bridge waving....i see you!

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Ugh this sucks to wake up to.

 

[hayneplane]

As much as it sucks fro sprint competition, I think with sprinters like Cavendish, Jakobsen, Ewan and others abandoning those teams really come to life. We now have Quickstep, Lotto and Astana all trying for breaks and racing aggressively.

Much better than them holding half their teams back to babysit the struggling sprinter that wasn’t winning anything anyway

 

[Boehmand]

I think Van Gils crashes first yeah. Not sure really what happens but he seems to be hitting the deck first.

A slight touch on the brakes in a wet curve, that's all it takes.

 

[DNP-Old]

Kelderman said to be noticeably injured too.

 

[Samamba]

A slight touch on the brakes in a wet curve, that's all it takes.

Oil on the road apparently.

 

[Volderke]

It's really hard to tell what happened. It didn't really look like a touch of a wheel. More like the bike slid out from under him on the curve.

Voigt mentioned oil on the road in that spot.

 

[Aapjes]

Dutch TV reports that the cars saw oil on the road.

 

[Boehmand]

Oil on the road apparently.

Water, but when it hasn't rained for a while, the first rain makes the roads very slick, until the oil/rubber/dirt which is on any road has washed away.