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Chris Foome Tour de France 2018 Stage 1 crash.JPGVideo: On-board footage of Chris Froome Tour de France Stage 1 crash
An on-board camera attached to the bike of Lotto-Soudal rider Jasper De Buyst captured Chris Froome's spectacular crash on the opening stage of the Tour de France this afternoon.
The crash happened less than 10 kilometres from the end of the 201-kilometre stage and leaves Froome 51 seconds down on some of his rivals in the overall standings.
The stage was wn by Quick Step Floors rider Fernando Gaviria, making his debut on the race, the 23-year-old claiming the first yellow jersey of this year's edition.
Read our report on the stage here.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Anybody notice the utterly bizarre way Froome picks his bike up? Back brake on and held by the seattube?!
Hardly bizarre.. If you’ve ever been in a crash during a road race you’d know that the last thing you’re thinking about is how to pick your bike up, all you want to do is: Get off ground, get bike onto road in fastest way possible re-mount and chase chase chase.
Good job everyone is wearing a helmet....
Shouldnt this be in the close pass section of this website?
I read that the Katusha rider did apologise after the race so might not have been intentional.
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Katusha rider (#148, Rick Zabel) to his left shouldered him.
As Burt says the Instagram video is useless, so here's the same clip on YouTube
https://youtu.be/FQUFU0CMoHc
It was Marcel Kittel. Unintentional, just a racing incident of 2 riders going for the same bit of road but there's really only ever going to be one winner in a Froome Vs Kittel bounce-off!
Looks like the rider on his left made contact, but the vid format is so awful you can't slow it down to check.
If he'd contacted that post it may have been race over or worse.