- Sep 12, 2005
- 24,604
- 21,898
How far out was it?
About 10 or 12k to go, so no chance of everyone caught up getting the same time. It was two crashes, really. Looked like a Europcar rider skidded and went down after it had just started to rain. Brajkovic went flying into a barrier at the side of the road, he's out. As the helicopter was focusing on the riders down there it missed the main crash which was about 30 or 40 metres up the road at a roundabout. It was carnage, pretty much. Riders strewn all over the road. Nasty looking. Giampaolo Caruso was down not moving for ages before being carted off in an ambulance. It seemed only about ten riders missed the crashes completely, including Cadel and three teammates to take him up to the finish line.