The video shows Jesper Hansen being absolutely creamed by a Tour de Romandie medic who hit him with his car door as the Dane was getting back on to the bunch after a crash moments earlier.
Yesterday's stage 2 of the Tour de Romandie was one to forget for Tinkoff-Saxo rider Jesper Hansen.
The Danish rider was coming back through the cavalcade after he crashed when a medic who had stopped to help another crash victim, Svein Tuft, knocked him flying as he opened his car door as Jensen went passed.
The medic then checked the door for damage and promptly ran off up the road to help Tuft who, to be fair, looked a lot more seriously injured.
Tuft finished last on the stage, in the same group as Jensen, over 15 minutes down.
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Hopefully Dan Martin's luck can improve, starting this week at the Tour de Romandie (Photo: Sirotti)
Canadian national champion Tuft was carrying bidons from the team car back up to the peloton when he crashed.
He could at least console himself with the fact his Swiss Orica GreenEdge team mate Michael Albasini won the stage at the head of the leading 49-rider group and captured the race lead.
Nicolas Roche was part of the Team Sky line-up that won the team time trial stage 1 on Tuesday and he was in the lead group yesterday.
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Roche at the start of yesterday's stage, sporting a bandage on his right leg following his crash at Liège–Bastogne–Liège (Photo: Sirotti)
However, he fell heavily in Liège–Bastogne–Liège on Sunday and as a result of some bruising and road rash he sustained there, he lost contact with his team in the time trial. It means he is well down the field overall; 51st at 2:23.
The only other Irishman in the race, Dan Martin (Cannondale-Garmin), trailed home in a group just over nine minutes down yesterday.
He is still nursing the injuries he sustained when crashing in last Wednesday’s Fleche-Wallone and again in Liège–Bastogne–Liège, where he came off in the same crash as Roche.
The Tour de Romandie continues until Sunday. Have a look at Hansen's crash in the clip below.
Hat tippage, IrishCorner10.
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