Even by cycling standards, the footage is hard to watch.
During stage three of the Tour de France yesterday, an enormous crash in the main peloton threw a host of riders off their bikes. In the ensuing melee, William Bonnet, who appeared to trigger the crash when he clipped a wheel, broke a cervical vertebra, while yellow jersey holder Fabian Cancellara went somersaulting dramatically into a roadside hedge, his bicycle pirouetting in the air behind him.
Of course, cycling and Le Tour are no strangers to crashes. Notoriously, this is a hard man’s game, requiring riders to … More