Gilbert Versier, the surgeon working on the Tour de France as one of the in-race doctors has described the mass peloton pile-up on the first stage of this year's race as looking like the scene from a war.
Versier, speaking to l'Equipe, told of how he arrived on the scene to find "the same chaos, the same moans, bodies everywhere, and tangled machines."
The crash, the first of two big incidents within the first stage, was caused by a fan who was holding a cardboard sign out into the road. The woman, who the police are yet to identify, was facing away from the road, trying to catch the attention of the passing TV motorbike.
Versier says that when a large crash happens in the peloton "you can't imagine so much breakage. In the midst of the commotion, the riders are getting up and wanting to start again, the most serious cases must be identified.
"In general, these are the ones who are furthest from the accident site, because they have been thrown."
Thankfully, despite the two high-speed crashes taking down countless riders, only three riders were unable to finish. Marc Soller, meanwhile, finished with two broken arms and did not start stage 2.
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