Known in pro cycling for the number of scrapes he gets into as much as for winning races, Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis) was the centre of attention again today.
The French rider was lucky that his spectacular crash at the end of GP de Fourmies (1.HC) was not much worse.
He was robustly fighting for position - as he often does - when he lost control of his bike; he and Jasper Philipsen (UAE-Team Emirates) going shoulder-to-shoulder at the time.
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As the video below shows, Bouhanni very nearly crashed as he was pressing against Philipsen as they were jostling with for the wheel in front; that of eventual winner Pascal Ackermann (Bora-hansgrohe).
However, Bouhanni somehow initially kept the bike upright, only to dart across the road to his left, skidding as he went and then crashing.
It was a spectacular loss of control and while one other rider was also brought down, this could have been much worse.
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