MASSIVE Crash Just CHANGED the TOUR DE FRANCE

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welcome to the butterfly effect I’m Chris hor this is stage five of dolphin a 2024 today’s race 167 km about 105 miles in length we got a bunch of categorized climbs on today’s race but the category 2 climb Summits with about 100 km to go so that means that this should be a good stage for the sprinters when you have somebody like mads Pon from Li Trek remember he wants stage one he can get over climbs and he’s a sprinter very very qualified Sprinter Sam Bennett ag2r in the race too he’s the second Sprinter here at dolphan a and when the cameras come on we see Li El Trek and we see ag2r on the front of the Pelon we go up and look at what the Breakaway looks like we got three Riders up there halter from Uno X is up there we see Lear up there in the K Jersey and then Tobias beay from albasin dunic is up there doesn’t take very long we’re at about 75 78 kilometers to go and we’ll see the Uno X Rider as he loses the front end in second place his bike goes down he slides across the road and Halter’s having some problems right here as he’s crashing with 75 km to go in today’s race but it’s gotten slippery and nasty out here and you’ll see the K Jersey just sitting there third whe he’ll just avoid the crash and come around now if I point out something with halter because it’s really slippery on the road right now when he crashes you can see him adjusting his body position and actually lifting himself up onto his cleats and his pedals as he’s sliding this I’ve had this happen many times when I’ve crashed in the rain and you’re sliding along time you have time to actually readjust your position and try to get yourself up off the ground and that’s what we’re watching halter do now he’ll jump on a spare bike he’ll get back going and he’ll catch back up to the front guys but he’s not going to be there for too long because with about 45 kilomet to go he starts having some problems on The Descent again and it looks like he’s a little bit undecisive about how much air pressure he has in the tires or whether if his bike’s handling well or could be whenever you’re fiddling with your bike at this moment they could be feeling something under the tires that slipped and sliding a bit too much and that’s why we see halter he backs off lets it throttle off just a little bit and we’ll see Lear has the bridge to Gap back up to Tobias beay now when we go back to the pelaton what was happening back there liel treack and ag2r were right in the front but with 55 km ago things had started to get very nervous certainly once guys in the Breakaway start crashing and it’s wet and slippery out the director sport tees are going to tell all the main teams borans gr UAE team Emirates and of course sudo Quick Step with the race leader Rim coool after yesterday’s fine time trial Victory those teams are always going to start pushing to the front and we see viz molisa bike at the front throughout the whole part of the video being on here on today’s stage five this is a little bit new territory because remember they’ve been riding a little more in the middle a little more at the back on the stages one and then coming to the front on the more mountain stages of two and three but now they’re at the front full flight we know it’s getting nervous back there because even viz molisa bikes up there and all the teams are represented with Li l Trek starting to form at the front now we’re coming down to next descent we’re about 35 km too Tobias Bay is on the front he’s got a gap behind with Lear back there in the K Jersey chasing as they’re coming through the town Tobias Bayer is going to sit up he’s going to Pat his hip that’s his code signed there for I’m waiting for you get back on he gets back on and those guys go up to the next K just about with 2628 km to go laber secur some more KO points now this will help him out to keep the jersey after today stage five but we still got the mountain stages starting really big time for the next 3 days when we’re talking about stages 6 seven and 8 now the pelaton as they’re coming up over this K everybody knows it’s danger control everybody’s got red lights flashing every radio is going off from their director saying you have to get over the top and we’ll see at the front of the group they’re flying over the top of this last K here going full gas as they’re dropping down The Descent with just under 25 km to go look at the back pelaton as they’re going over this k though these guys are sprinting back here so you know at the front it’s full gas and as they drop down The Descent oh it’s going to get crazy and nasty there’s going to be a big time crash we look at the camera from the back we got two estana Riders back there tahad a little bit over to the left and Anton’s on the right we look behind tahada that’s Roman right there from DSM Roman kabo and as as T tahada in front starts seeing the crash happening in front of him it’s so slippery he’s starting to move a little bit to the left kabo Roman kabo from DSM starting to hit the brakes but he hit it a little bit later so he has to move hard to the left once he does he just barely misses tahada there he goes sideways the back end’s getting all kicked off he’s going up into the hillside there where the ditch is on the left side he hits that rolls hard and then comes out and hits his head hard on the edge there between the concrete and the grass pavement hopefully when we’re talking Roman Kobo he’s okay right here on this stage five cuz this was a nasty crash with a lot of speed now what happened over to the Riders let’s go back and back the film up as we look at Anton back there once the crash started happening in front of him what’s saving Anton what’s saving tahada here from crashing well first off Tada got very lucky that Roman kabo went all the way to the left instead of just crashing in the back of him otherwise he goes down when we look at Anton on the right what’s saving both of these Riders two things had to happen of course over there for tahada because he had to be missed from the back wheel but now the pelaton if I take you when the first Rider crashes in front of the two estana Riders look at the one tell telephone pole there or energy pole on the side of the road there as you can see the pelaton is going so fast look down at the bottom of the screen there shows the speed of Anton there he’s doing 65 66 kmet an hour we’re talking about over 40 miles an hour right now and the Riders because the road is so wet and slippery they’re literally sliding from one pole all the way to the next pole that allows the two eston Riders to be able to slow the bike down a little bit and avoid crashing now let’s look at an aerial view we see the Carnage just about the whole pelaton went down when we look at the front of the Pelon there’s four Riders up there we’re talking three vimma Lisa bikes made it through this crash that’s sep cus that’s Jorgenson third on General classification we see that the third Rider is T sput the fourth rider that’s Chone I believe from l l Trek those four guys made it through the front here they started at the front especially Jorgenson he was always riding second third wheel in the pelaton behind his teammate up at the front but he wasn’t riding fifth sixth wheel behind his team cuz he wanted a better spot coming down to descent now paid off for Jorgenson as he’s made it through the crash when the camera backs up and we start looking at all the other Riders we see the race leaders yellow Jersey that right there Remco Abol yesterday stage individual time trial winner he’s went down and he’s sitting down he’s got all his teammates wrapped around him now the next guy on General classification Primos roget he goes down to and you see him up standing next to his teammates he’s shaking out his arm rolling his shoulder his his right arm around cuz he wants to make sure shoulder okay he’s had shoulder operations before so he’s checking that out everything at the front of the pelon’s been stopped now when we’re talking about the two original Breakaway riders with Tobias Bay and with Leber matis laber those guys are held up but they only had about a 30- second Gap anyways as now some of the pelaton are starting to merge up to the front with those two guys when we go back and start looking at the crash though we see vizol Lisa bike yes three of them made it through the crash at the front I already told you orgon s sep cus they’re GC guys but when we look further back they got some problems back there cuz Steven kwicks went down hard and Dylan Van barley went down hard too both those two Riders will get up and be walking around but both will leave the race and we’ll see Steven kwick with some kind of what looks like a shoulder injury he’ll walk his way onto the gurnie and then they’ll load him up in the ambulance now when we’re looking over at the pseudo quickstep guys Rimco the pool does get up we see him walking back and going to his car but let me back up the film a little bit so I can explain what’s going through some of the Riders hit immediately when you see the crash it’s like the Riders at the back how do I survive when you with Roman with Roman Kobo when he went off to the left he went off into the grass this is one of the rare moments when you crash and I’ve had crashes like this many times when I was riding with fdj I was supposed to do the tour to France and I was and I was riding midi Le in France just a few weeks before the tour to France when I was told you’re doing the tour to France when I crashed it was on a flat Road it was dry but we were in severe Crosswinds and lining the side of the road were trees as you go down those famous fren roads and European roads with all the Big Trees lying on the side I had a choice of either staying on the pavement or going in the grass but if I went into the grass i’ hit one of the trees lining the road so I decided to stay on the street this is another scenario where you absolutely want to stay on the street because if you look at the crash of Roman kabo again he had the ditch there then he has the mountain Hillside always on the mountain Hillside there’s always something in there some kind of big rock something that can stop you something that can keep you rolling and with the ditch the bike drops down in the ditch everything thing just starts exploding into pieces it’s not a good place to crash even though normally up here on the butterfly effect and Beyond the coverage I would always tell you you pick the grass but on the Hills side it gets complicated on the right side with the poles you never want to go there so you basically want to stay in the street and at that moment when the Riders are coming down like the Stana Riders if they were to crash or if we take the riders in front of them like the bar and victorus right a little bit onto the left side once he crashed he got up and ran off the road right away worrying about other riders coming behind them so when you’re coming into that section you know you can’t go left you know you can’t go right every time when I’ve crashed in this scenario I look for a body to tell you the truth I look for someone that’s already down on the ground and I try to land on a person or body or even a bike is better than actually hitting the road but I’ll still take the road when it’s wet and slippery over the telephone pole and over the mountain side with the ditch because that normally doesn’t come out well for you if the bike drops down into some kind of hole as I already told you things just start explo loading on the bike now another scenario that’s happening after the crash we see a lot of the quickstep Riders we see Landa we see Ilan Van Wilder and we see Giani mosan and they’re taking a nature break this is because not because they’re not interested in what’s happening it’s because you’re so wired as a professional athlete that immediately you’re thinking okay how do I survive this crash how do I make the crash lessen the damage once the crash is actually happened you’ve gotten up the next thing is how are my teammates looking the very next thing is okay what do we got to do to get ready for the race when it restarts you’re never thinking about the race going neutral you’re always thinking about the restart and that’s why we see pseudo quickstep Riders taking nature breaks and we see Primos rogl who’s sitting second on the general classification after he’s finished checking out his shoulder after he realizes he’s he’s probably okay at this moment he’s taking a gel at that moment and then all of the riders that will finish today stage five they’ll roll back down The Descent nice and easy they’ll go into where the two original Breakaway Riders were stopped everyone will R up rendevu up there they’ll have a pause and then what’s going to happen is the race organizers are going to realize they don’t have enough ambulances so they’re going to neutralize the stage the whole group is going to ride into the finish of the race now what’s going to happen tonight at the hotel as today’s race didn’t count there was no stage winner the only classification that worked on today’s stage that they continued was the K Jersey which I told you laber already got everything else was neutralized but there is a ton of work to do after a stage like this the mechanics have to fix bikes left and right they’re going to be up all night and very early in the morning to get the bikes prepped with so many riders crashing the director sportifs they’re in crisis mode I told you Visa Visa Lisa bike they had two Riders leave the race Dylan Van barley and Steven kwick both those two Riders are scheduled to to do the tour to France on their tour to France roster they have eight Riders listed on that roster and I can tell you Kristoff leaport might have been a question mark for the tour France Yan tratnik did the jro along with Kristoff leaport where he crashed Yan tratnik was doing the whole jro so he might be tired and he might have only been on the list of the torto FRS because they needed to put Riders down and they were going to change them out later so that’s two Riders out of eight that are already probably questionable for the torto France but now you’re Lo losing Steven kwick if if the injury today which looked like it to his shoulder if that’s a problem and he can’t get get back on his bike cuz remember we’re getting down to 3 weeks time before the torto front starts so Steven kwick is going to be questionable Dylan Van Barley’s out of the race today so he could be questionable that’s four Riders on viz Melisa bike out of a eight Rider team that most likely won’t start the tour to France but now Yan tratnik and Kristoff Port might be the guys they have to take so hopefully their form’s getting a little better now when we start looking a little further into that Tor to France roster remember they don’t even know if yonas vgo right now is going to start the torto France while van art I believe we’ll start the tourto France we’ve seen him racing already when I saw him racing in Norway he looked like he was on very good form for a guy that was coming into into his first race saw him getting some top fives two top fives on different stages so we know W van Art’s riding good enough with especially with three weeks four weeks to go at that point from Norway to the Tor of France I believe W vanard would be in there but you’re going to have to find someone that can climb that can replace Steven kwick if if his injury here on today’s stage five won’t get him to the Tor to fr FR now when I’m looking at their list it starts getting pretty thin pickings there I see Keon UT Brooks and I remember he was riding 6 fifth at the Juro ditalia before he got sick and dropped out so if he’s healed from that if his body’s back to 100% if he didn’t go on vacation after getting sick he might could be a possibility for the tour to France but when we start looking at other Riders to to replace Dylan Van barley it starts getting pretty complicated when you start thinking there’s four guys out of an eight Rider team that you have to replace now now like I said Yan tratnik and most likely Kristoff leaport I don’t think we’re going to be there anyways W van art would have replaced one of them but you still have to find someone else so when we’re talking about Mick van djk Tim van djk did the jro mick van dijk’s been good at the classics along with his brother so if Mick van dy’s been riding good Mick you might have to get on your bike start doing some extra miles because you might be at the tour the fronts their list is not super depth right there so they got all kinds of problems with this crash next team I want to talk about Bor we got Primos Rog he says he still needs to get his shoulder checked out afterwards when he’s talking to the Press when we go over the REM Co pole he seemed to be a little bit better in the crash today because he did go down in the crash too the crash he’s going to have to wait and see how he feels but from his interview it looks like he’s pretty decent did have some soreness though that he was talking about I believe if I remember correctly in his knee and of course he had some operations done on his on his uh not operation but he had shoulder work issue when he crashed on stage four of the bass country so tomorrow stage six is the first Real Mountain Stage here at the dolphin a Bora hrow director sportifs they’re in panic mode too mechanics like I said are doing all kinds of work swanier and our physio guys at tonight are working all day long the director sportifs now have to come up with a plan if you’re studo quickstep in the race leaders yellow Jersey you got to go over to rim Co the pool and you got to say how bad is it can you win tomorrow’s race can you win the overall General classification because they have couple different options one’s the only good option Rim coab the pulls 100% his teammates bring him into the last climb on the next three stages he does battle with Primos Rog glitch Jorgenson up there and they see if they can actually hold on to the race leaders jersey that’s an easy tactic 101 it’s like butter spreads easy it’s easy to understand but when we start talking about the other two guys Landa and Elon Van Wilder if REM coab theol says I don’t know I’m bad maybe he needs to wait till the race starts tomorrow maybe he needs to decide in the race and just say nope I got problems I hit my knee in the in the crash yesterday I’m sore my shoulder’s not working right something’s not right I need to back off well then the only other options for pseudo quickstep is you have ilon Van Wilder and you have Mel land that you can put in the early breakaways because there’s going to be a break Fest happening on tomorrow’s stage here of dolphin a because it’s the first Mountain Stage and everyone knows that no one’s 100% on form when after the crash today so it’s going to be attack Fest like crazy viz M Lisa bike might have already been planning on putting sep cus in a lot of early attacks and so if that’s the case and Bor Hans girls Rim coap team thinks that oh maybe I’m not so good when I’m talking Rim coo they have options to put Mel Landa and ilon Van Wilder in the earlier breaks to see if they can gain time on some of the other climbers the only problem is there’s three Mountain stages back to back so even if Mel Landa was to get into the break up there maybe he can gain some time maybe he’s a better climber than everyone in that break but we still have two more mountain stages to come after tomorrow’s Mountain Stage so the crash today has altered everything we’re going to watch in the next 3 days if Rim coab theol is not on 100% form because pseudo quickstep will change their tactics all around if they’re intelligent and try to win with Landa or with ilon Van Wilder putting in an early break only problem with that move is if Rimco Evol decides later in the race that he felt good he’s already wasted two of his super domestiques in the mountains so when we get on the last climb Rimco EV the p is isolated with no climbers around them so it’s a complicated issue for every everybody tonight swanier has got to work hard mechanics got to work hard director sport tees have to work hard on the plan tomorrow and they have to work hard for what’s going to happen three weeks from now at the tour to France if your bis molisa bike so like And subscribe tomorrow is going to be an incredible race and attack Fest from the beginning and the mountains when we talk about the summit finish of Tomorrow stage it’s going to be magnificent there’s going to be attacks all over the place after the crash and all of the insecurities of how everyone’s form could possibly be after the crash today on stage 5 make sure you guys like And subscribe I’ll see you real soon for the next Edition