Tour de Suisse Stage 4 **SPOILER**

greeny12

Ugh - stomach churning. Almost as bad as a MotoGP crash but with none of the body protection.

On another day Cav and Haussler would have gone shoulder to shoulder and they'd just have bounced off each other, but the crank-in-wheel thing referred to by someone else did for them. Given the situation Boonen did amazing to almost stop before he hit Cav - max respect for his bike-handling...

FransJacques

Sheit - who's hurt? Hope not Cav or Haussler or Boonen. The last 2 are just coming back.

Anyway good for Petacchi. That's sprinting.

Rodrego Hernandez

Cav was looking left and naturally veered that way, looked like Hauslers foot caught Cavs foot and caused the crash.

Cavs fault though, should have used his second kick to get more distance.

FOAD

steviedonut wrote:

Ironman595 wrote:

looked to me as if hausslers front wheel took out the Cavs rear? No?

aye,poor cav the victim.
he had a quick glance and deliberately rode across ciolek and haussler-the sort of thing thor was complaining about last july.The crash was entirely cavandishs fault and i suspect if hed bothered to ride straight hed have won easily

Lol. Perhaps if it didn't involve Cav you would take of the bias blinkers and actually see what happened. Lol.

blazing_saddles

Yes, having watched a number of times, Cav cut slightly infront.

Looking further back, crashes everywhere.
There was a Liquigas bike exploding 10 feet into the air and a guy in a grey helmet and RadioShack colours who took a nasty nose dive into the tarmac, for sure....

iainf72

Chaos.

As Roman put it, I hope to guys get good.

camerone

most importantly any news on condition of riders?
looked like both drifting cav more than hausler

StefanP

Cavendish's fault, how can you swing like that at 60kmph(+) and not expect to hit another rider?
I wouldn't wish that on any rider.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRFh9GuLYbs

nferrar

Ugh that was grim, pity the Eurosport coverage cut away before any update on the riders condition. Have to agree though Cav moved far more than anyone else, just unfortunate they didn't just shoulder barge.

CarbonCopy

Haussler was going to take Cav and thats why he rode accross him.It was a shame to see that happen i`m hoping no one was that seriously hurt.
Cav you silly man!!

Ironman595

yeah for sure Cav moved across, I'd just prefer to see an overhead shot that's all- you know how different things can look.
Just from what I saw (which seems pretty poor as I completed missed the crank arm- good spot) was that HH took cavs back wheel. Point is- it shouldn't have been there in the first place! Already been mentioned- hey, that's sprinting. not defending him. I do like him, but I'm not a Cav fanboy

Mar ge

Cav had already squeezed Ciolek out. The squeeze on Hausler was too late & too desperate.

iainf72

Cav ok, badly bruised. Haussler on way to hospital.

Ciolek ok.

But pity Arnaud Coyot - Fractured hip likely.

iainf72

Cavendish gets 30 second penalty.

camerone

hmm. looked to me like cav was going quicker than haussler no? i agree he moved across but i think he was travelling faster?

frenchfighter

He should know better. Unless his foot came out the pedal and caused the bike to swerve but I don't think so. Feel sorry for Haussleur - hope he and all are ok.

Reuters

frenchfighter

And really smooth by Flecha to move around the two crashed riders.

blazing_saddles

From the CN forum.
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Homer J

Last time Chav cut someone off it cost him the green jersey

Homer J

Blazing Saddles wrote:

From the CN forum.

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quick sand!

emadden

Its interesting to see how Cav's wheel folded on impact but in the later pictures, the wheel seems to have popped back into shape, albeit with a deflated tub... no?

mididoctors

Blazing Saddles wrote:

From the CN forum.

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set your controls for the heart of the earth

Homer J

Got to say, some great photo's there.

wasabi_m

You tend to wonder whether Cavendish is worried about Haussler's growing ability. Injured almost all season, on his way to winning his second stage in three days and taken out by a thug who has been failing to achieve anything compared to last year.

Also Hushovd to win the green.

mididoctors

iainf72 wrote:

Cav ok, badly bruised. Haussler on way to hospital.

Ciolek ok.

But pity Arnaud Coyot - Fractured hip likely.

not going to be popular for that list of injuries

CioleK was very lucky to get away without a broken collarbone... went down hand first rather than rolled with it.....

Cav needs to grow up a bit is my impression...

emadden

And earlier in the sprint (with about 250m to go) Cav also pulled a dodgy move when he pulled right across the road from centre to the side and cut a few people up... all the Swiss commentators here went "wooooaaaaahhh"

iainf72

This must mean Cav is off to Sky. I mean, this is excellent practise for sitting on the road as we saw quite often in Italy

I bet Boonen is thinking "at least I can hold my lines"

emadden

iainf72 wrote:

This must mean Cav is off to Sky. I mean, this is excellent practise for sitting on the road as we saw quite often in Italy

I bet Boonen is thinking "at least I can hold my lines"

but then he tests positive

camerone

wasabi_m wrote:

You tend to wonder whether Cavendish is worried about Haussler's growing ability. Injured almost all season, on his way to winning his second stage in three days and taken out by a thug who has been failing to achieve anything compared to last year.

Also Hushovd to win the green.

yeah you are right. cav definately did that deliberately to take out haussler. he thought, right nows my chance i'll cause a massive pile up , injure haussler but not myself and then i can win again.
what absolute horsesh1t being spouted here there really is

iainf72

Haussler out. Stitches and very deep cuts around his elbow.