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rickshaw said:Radios don't cause crashes. Moronic directors screaming into them cause crashes. Allow the radios, muzzle morons.
ulrikmm said:EDIT: Please note: the purpose of this thread is to discuss the massive high speed pile up in stage 6 in the 2012 TdF. This purpose is not to discuss which horribe accident was the worst. Maybe the editors could change the title to 2012 Tour de France stage 6 crash.EDIT finish
The Tour de France stage 6 crash (middle of the peloton, tailwind, downhill, 80 kmph) is probably the worst ever
Below from http://www.ekstrabladet.dk a list of the damages of the riders that were forced to leave the race. Some of the most hurt riders are said to have made it to the finish line before leaving the race.
Maarten Wynants, Rabobank: Punctured lung and two broken ribs
Wout Poels, Vacansoleil-DCM: Ruptured spleen and kidney, three broken ribs
Thomas Danielson, Garmin-Sharp: Dislocated shoulder (twice in two consecutive stages)
Astarloza, Euskaltel - Euskadi: right elbow dislocated
Amets Txurruka, Euskaltel - Euskadi: Broken collarbone
Oscar Freire, Katusha: Broken rib, punctured lung
Davide Viganò, Lampre-ISD: Broken shoulder
Hubert Dupont, AG2R-La Mondiale: Broken wrist, broken vertebra, strained ankle
Imanol Erviti, Movistar: Deep wound in right leg (muscle damage, needs surgery)
Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Movistar: Damaged knee
Theese are truly high velocity damages that without urgent diagnosis and care could have cost lives.
On the positive side: ****Helmets work!!!**** No brain injuries in this crash.
DNF Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi
DNF Davide Vigano (Ita) Lampre - ISD
DNF Thomas Danielson (USA) Garmin - Sharp
DNF Wout Poels (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
DNS José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Movistar Team
DNS Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Movistar Team
DNS Maarten Wynants (Bel) Rabobank Cycling Team
DNS Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Katusha Team
DNS Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
DNS Robert Hunter (RSA) Garmin - Sharp
DNS Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Garmin - Sharp
DNS Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi
Unkown said:...you don't do that in the middle of the peleton.
joe_papp said:yes, you do - and 10x worse - if you're a euro-pro. scary stuff. putting petacchi's booties into your jersey pocket is hardly much more complex that fishing out a packet of gel, opening it and sucking it down. and you don't expect riders to circulate to the back of the bunch to do that now.
agreed, that the notion of such an apocalyptic crash occurring as the result of something as mundane as booties is annoying, but it's often the every-day stuff, when riders are lulled into false sense of security, that can be deadly if the brain switches off just for a sec.
If you read what happened, the peleton had slowed when the rider did this, but then it slowed down more when he was doing it and couldnot break and fell into a ditch.Unkown said:Sure maybe if the bunch was going 40-50kmph but they were hitting speeds of 80 when it happened. Surely whoever it was could have found a better time to remove his damn booties instead of taking 2/3 of the field down with him. You look down at your feet for 1 second and it could all be over for a lot of other guys behind you at those speeds.
Normandy said:Until teams like BMC and Sky leave stop filling the front of the peleton at the end of races with their domestics this is going to carry on happening.