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.
10 thoughts on “Video: On-board footage of Chris Froome Tour de France Stage 1 crash”
If he’d contacted that post
If he’d contacted that post it may have been race over or worse.
Looks like the rider on his
Looks like the rider on his left made contact, but the vid format is so awful you can’t slow it down to check.
Katusha rider to his left
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
CygnusX1 wrote:
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!
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I read that the Katusha rider
I read that the Katusha rider did apologise after the race so might not have been intentional.
Shouldnt this be in the close
Shouldnt this be in the close pass section of this website?
Good job everyone is wearing
Good job everyone is wearing a helmet….
Anybody notice the utterly
Anybody notice the utterly bizarre way Froome picks his bike up? Back brake on and held by the seattube?!
Rapha Nadal wrote:
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.