Sam Bennett has crashed in the bunch sprint that settled stage 3 at Paris-Nice earlier today.
After a very hard day in the saddle, which took the riders some 212.5km from Chalette-sur-Loing to La Châtre, the stage came down to a messy sprint from a much reduced peloton.
Bennett’s Deceuninck-Quick Step had done a great job to
try and position the Irish rider for the sprint, though they got a little
swamped in the closing stages.
As Bennett looked like he was about to fight his way up
the inside of the group in a bid to win, Hugo Hofstetter (Israel Start-Up Nation) suffered a mishap.
His bike seemed to lock onto the bike of
Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) with both of them moving suddenly to the right and Hofstetter
taking out Bennett.
The Irish cyclist hit both the advertising hoarding on
the barriers and the tarmac at speed; an awful way to end almost six hours of
racing.
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He eventually crossed the line after picking himself up
but was holding his arm or wrist as he finished.
Iván García Cortina (Bahrain-McLaren) came through the carnage to win the stage in a
sprint.
More to come.
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