Tour of Switzerland *SPOILERS*

[aJohnson]

Didn't see a topic so I thought I'd create one.

Cancellara won the prologue of 7.6km today in 10:21 with Kreuziger in second place 1second behind and Tony Martin in 3rd 3seconds behind.

 

[Skip Madness]

It was a very impressive sprint by Heinrich Haussler today. I seemed to have forgotten he existed up until his recent drink-driving twattery, but it was an excellently timed jump to go past the two in front of him.

That climb at the end was really quite nasty, and as Mike Smith intimated looked on the face of it more of a second-category climb than a third.

 

[Vikeonabike]

OUCH Cav OUCH!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Massive crash at the end today - Cavendish seemed to come off his line and touch Haussler before he wiped out and took quite a few down with him. Petacchi survived to win. I suspect Cav will be relegated for that!

 

[raindog]

It looked to me more as if Haussler touched Cav's back wheel. We need to find a clip and study it properly. Whatever, it seemed Cav was well set up to take the win.

 

[raindog]

Here we are

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

You're right, from the helicopter shot it seems more like Cav's fault.

 

[iAmiAdam]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RNAYR3KPIg


Racing incident me thinks.

 

[raindog]

Cav has received a 30 second time penalty.

 

[rich p]

From the front it looked like they both moved toward each other but from above it looked 70/30 Cav's fault. Shame as it would be nice to see how Cav is shaping up but at least not too many serious injuries.

 

[rich p]

p.s. Whereabouts in la belle France are you based raindog?

 

[Skip Madness]

It was clearly nothing malicious or untoward but it was completely Cavendish' fault and the fine is a fair cop (a 30 second deduction is less likely to worry him, I feel).

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Unfortunately though, Haussler is out with serious gash following the incident. Not a great season for him or Cav so far.

 

[andrew_s]

As I saw it...
Cav was moving left (wrongly); Haussler, holding a line, saw Cav moving across and stuck out a shoulder to bounce him off.
Cav's wheel collapsed, and everyone went down.

 

[aJohnson]

Just saw the crash. By the looks of it Cav went close to Haussler but Haussler was the one to hit wheels, it's still Cavs fault for moving left though.

But a nasty crash.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Cav's wheel collapsed, and everyone went down.

That is a scary picture.