A crash during the Tour de France Femmes on Thursday July 28 left dozens of riders in a massive pile up, with one being sent to the hospital.
The accident took place on a road between Bar-le-Luc to Saint-die-des-Vosges in France during Stage 5 of the Tour de France Femmes, one of the women’s cycling’s two grand tours, taking place from July 24 to 31 this year.
With 50 kilometers left in the race, the crash occurred on a straight, wide road for no apparent reason.
Video footage of the moment showed several riders falling down into each other into a pile across the road, leading others behind them to crash into them.
Danish cyclist Emma Norsgaard was sent to hospital, suffering several injuries to her head, neck and left shoulder, according to CNN.
Several riders also suffered bumps and bruises, and it took them several minutes to untangle themselves from each other and their bikes.
“I just rode in over the girls and I think a few girls fell on top of me,” Dutch rider Chantal van den Broek-Blaak told Cycling Weekly. “It was a long, straight road and with stages like this when it’s 175 kilometers and flat you know you cannot concentrate for four-and-a-half hours, so it can happen.”
Some riders reported that the cause was a fallen water bottle, according to Cycling Weekly.
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18 Comments
Woman moment.
"I ain't gonna say it. I'm thinking it, but I ain't gonna say it." -My neighbor's dog when he saw this.
Woman moment
"I've got a bike you can ride it if you like it's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good I would give it to you if I could but I borrowed it"- syd barret 1967
Look at the person riding last (red/orange jersey)…has lots of free space ahead of her and time to react yet still seems to decide that she wants to "join in the crash"
Reason why I ride clippers. If I have to bail, I want to bail. Not worry about un clipping.
L bozo get better
Women moment
Half of them crashed on purpose
Skill issue
If this was the male tour de France the men would also start beating eachother after they crashed.
GROUP HUG…Oh sh**!!!
Wow. Terrible accident . So difficult to unclip quickly. I hope they all ok. 😢
LOL
Love to see it 😂
😂
Beautiful !!!! But do try again, 30% or so got away…
When I was a young boy,a race went past us and this boy was waiting with a thin wooden pole.he threw it like a javelin into the spokes causing every ambulance in the area to be called out.Numerous broken bones and he ended up going to jail.Some people laugh when they see this but try being 10 metres from it.