The cut shorts and road rashed ass of Italian sprint Elia Viviani (centre) tells the story of the finale of Giro d'Italia stage 10 after 173km into Salsomaggiore yesterday, Tuesday (Photo: Sirotti)
The video below captures the mass pile-up that marred the final kilometre of stage 10 of the Giro d'Italia yesterday, Tuesday, after 173km in the saddle on the mainly flat road into Salsomaggiore.
The American sprinter Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Sharp) was around 8th in line entering the very closing stages as the full-on sprint was about to launch when he fell first, perhaps as a result of touching the wheel ahead of him.
His fall caused a ripple effect that impacted much of the peloton, with those closest to him also falling and a large number of those behind being held up.
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Thankfully Ireland's Nicolas Roche (Tinkoff-Saxo) and Philip Deignan (Team Sky) were in a section of the main field away from the spill and neither was a faller.
The stage was won Nacer Bouhanni (FDJ); his third victory of this race and one that shored up his lead in the points classification.
Apart from taking a lot of riders out of the action, and leaving many with wounds they must now nurse through the rest of this Giro, the crash was significant for the apparent ease of the recovery made by race leader Cadel Evans (BMC).
He found himself off the back of the small group of sprinters that pulled clear in the gallop when the crash caused a split to their rear.
But he closed up to them with ease, so much so that he looked comfortable and freewheeling at one point just as the final dash for home started.
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As the commentator says, it's Evans' recovery from incidents like this that makes you think it may just be his year to add the Giro to the Tour de France in his palmares.
Stage 10 finishing crash
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