2023-05-01 10:35:11
A massive fall on a dangerous passage led to the cancellation of the 6th stage of the Tour de Bretagne. Some runners are in the hospital, others very angry.
This is the kind of information that sends shivers down your spine. On Sunday, the 6th stage of the Tour de Bretagne had to be canceled in the middle of the race. The reason ? A massive fall decimated the peloton, and there weren’t enough ambulances left to follow the peloton towards the end of the stage.
The images ended up being released on social media. We see the runners fall on a muddy part, downhill, which clearly raises questions regarding the dangerousness of the course.
Last stage of the Tour de Bretagne canceled following this terrible fall ????
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— Renaud Breban (@RenaudB31) April 30, 2023
The weather was nice on Sunday, but some dirt had slipped on the road. “That, the organizer can’t do anything regarding it. But when the jury went behind the breakaway… For me, it’s a total lack of respect for the riders and the teams, denounced Belgian rider Kevin Van Melson to Direct Velo. Some can stake their career on it. Not to mention the cost of broken hardware. »
However, the race organizer assures that he has not made any mistakes by having the runners pass by this route. “No, I’m not sorry. It was a nice nice little road. I just regret that there were ten meters of mud, not more. Ten meters! On a nice little nice and very dry course”, confides Christophe Fossani, also to Direct Velo.
According to this, it is simply “the fault of bad luck”. “On RadioTour, I reported the danger. The Republican Guard had signaled the danger and put up a yellow flag to warn everyone. Everything was reported. But without earbuds, it’s more difficult. For security, it is useful. There, it’s bad luck. Unfortunately, it was one of the first riders in the peloton who fell. If he had been one of the last riders in the peloton, the story would have been different”he judges.
Four runners were evacuated to hospital, three of them with a concussion. The fourth is hit in the tibia, indicates the medical bulletin of the event.
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