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Paris-Nice Stage Two Sprint – Full Contact Cycling

Nacer Bouhanni and Michael Matthews collide in Paris-Nice and somehow manage to keep it upright. 

https://youtu.be/PzwSaR18suE

After officials reviewed the footage, Nacer Bouhanni was relegated to third position.

Snow Day for the Peloton

Stage 3 of Paris-Nice was cancelled due to heavy snow. VeloNews reports:

Snow and cold forced organizers to cancel Wednesday’s third stage at Paris-Nice. Conditions worsened midway through the seven-climb stage, prompting officials to neutralize, and then cancel the stage.

“The road was very slippery and safe conditions could not be assured,” the ASO’s Christian Prudhomme said, explaining the decision to first neutralize and then cancel the stage. Road conditions worsened as the course climbed the Cote des Écharmeaux at 714m (2,343 feet), a little more than halfway through the lumpy, 168km third stage from Cusset to Mont Brouilly.

Velo News: Paris-Nice Stage 3 Cancelled Mid-Race

Velo News Snow Day Gallery

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One of the Most Bizarre Crashes in Cycling Just Happened

There was a serious and very bizarre crash in Stage 4 of China’s Colorful Yunnan Gryffindor International Cycling Race. 17 riders were hospitalized.

What’s really bizarre is that it was a head-on collision between two groups of sprinters.

The leading group of sprinters seem to have accidentally been led off course and took a slight detour on a side road around the finish line and then doubled back and sprinted for the finish from the opposite direction, just as the second group sprinted from the other (correct) direction.

Head-On Collision in Final Sprint at China’s Yunnan Cycling Race

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Video: Huge Crash in Tour de France Stage 3 Causes Carnage

The early days of the Tour are notorious for crashes, but yesterday during stage 3 things got bad, the stage had to be neutralized while medics took care of riders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSULhAyY9QQ

According to Cycling Weekly:

“The double crashes on a fast descent in the Ardennes at the Tour de France on stage 3 left many of the riders battered, scraped and bruised on the worst possible day – right before they hit the cobbles of Northern France. So numerous were the injured that race organisers were forced to halt the stage to let the medics do their jobs.”

Cycling Weekly Photo Gallery of the Crash

Cancellara who was in yellow went down and has abandoned with a fractured vertebrae. Many other riders were injured. Those who survived have to face the cobbles today.

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Crash Culprit in Giro – What Was He Thinking?

The Giro is rolling, and after only 2 stages there’s drama.

Stage 1, the team time trial, gave some riders a kick in the butt and others a kick in the teeth.  Here’s how the top GC podium contenders fared:

Cycling Weekly: Winners and Losers of the Giro Stage 1

Drama in Stage 2 – Crash Caused By Spectator

Giro Crash Stage 2In the final kilometers of stage 2 yesterday, a spectator on a bicycle, rode into the road and caused a 30-rider pile up. I snapped some stills from the point in a video where all hell broke loose…

Giro 2015 - stage 2 - crash culprity

Giro d'Italia Stage 2 CrashAnd then he nonchalantly rode back up onto the sidewalk and cruised on surveying the carnage he’d left behind.

 

Here’s the full video of the incident, see if you can spot the “crash dummy.”