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The history and unwritten rules of crashing at the Tour de France

Cycling’s biggest race has a long history of crashes. Here is a guide to the unwritten rules of the Tour de France’s most harrowing moments.

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Crashes are the worst thing about cycling, especially at the Tour de France . They’re violent and disruptive, and they hurt riders who trained all year to be at the Tour only to go home in bandages. They rob us of fun and rob teams of million-dollar investments.

Crashes have already affected the 2018 Tour de France.Four-time winner Chris Froome lost 51 seconds because he went over a canvas barrier into a ditch . So did Adam Yates and Richie Porte. American Lawson Craddock has been toughing out the first week despite a broken scapula . Richie Porte was forced to abandon on the cobblestones of Stage 9, seemingly cracking his collarbone on a fall and being reduced to tears .

And yet we can’t get rid of crashes. They are as much a part of the sport as the pneumatic tire. They even have their own set of rules, written and unwritten, which often cause cycling’s deeply analytical fanbase to lose its minds for days on end.

Here, then, is your Tour de France crash primer: what they are about, and how they happen, so when that instant comes (and it always comes) you will know what you’re looking at.

To start with, let’s stipulate that nearly all crashes happen for two basic reasons: 1) Two bikes can’t be in the same place at the same time, and 2) Cyclists are fundamentally insane.

There are many types of cycling crashes

Crashes start with a rider losing his balance. Sometimes guys bump shoulders and someone goes down. Sometimes riders go down without the help of their competitors, hitting something in the road, overcooking a corner, or slipping on a wet spot (painted surfaces are not your friend on a rainy day).

But the big bunch crashes usually start with a touch of wheels. If you’re packed tightly going 40 miles per hour, trouble could come from any direction. Maybe the guy in front of you taps his brakes at the wrong time, or maybe you aren’t paying attention when the peloton slows down, and your furiously spinning rubber tire rubs up with someone else’s tire spinning the other way.

Usually you’re the one going down in this scenario — front wheels jerk sideways much more easily than rear wheels — and the people around you fall like bowling pins. Fortunes are lost (and, by process of elimination, won) in these moments; in the Tour de France one of those bowling pins could be the favorite to win, and if his helmet or collarbone isn’t up to the impact, a year’s worth of blood, sweat, and tears will have meant nothing.

Bunch crashes on the flats are bad enough, but usually the victims are able to get up and go on. The horror crashes typically happen on descents , where riders have even died from hitting the deck at high speed. Sometimes those bad impacts are due to bad luck. Heads have limits to what they can sustain, even inside a helmet.

Those are the crashes that leave a mark on the soul of the sport. Obviously the fate of the rider and his loved ones are the real story, but we fans have scars on our souls, too, that ache every time we hear names like Weylandt and Casartelli and Goolaerts.

But nobody wants to talk about those. The crashes we talk about the most happen in sprints . We accept them as part of the sport, even joke about them sometimes because, amazingly, riders tend to emerge intact, or close to it.

Google “Haselbacher” and “crash” and you will be treated to articles about an Austrian sprinter known for the occasional cartwheel in the final meters of sprints. (Rene Haselbacher is his name, and he’d like you to forget that he was known for crashing too much, thank you.) We got some mileage out of a crash in Turkey a few years back where it looked like Dutch sprinter Theo Bos had pulled a nifty little sumo maneuver in taking out Daryl Impey as the pair dueled down the stretch.

Cycling crashes are governed by a ton of unwritten rules

When we debate who did what to whom is when things get … complicated. Sprint crashes are 99 percent the fault of someone moving sideways, in direct violation of the written rule that you have to hold your line in the sprint.

Nobody cares about written rules. I reiterate what I wrote above: cyclists, and especially sprinters, are fundamentally off their rockers, and will try to fit themselves into spaces where they don’t belong any way they can. At 45 miles per hour.

Everybody takes cycling’s unwritten rules very seriously, however, even though no one can agree on what they are. At last year’s Tour, two of the Usual Suspects of cycling controversy took center stage when reigning World Champion Peter Sagan came along the right-side barriers ahead of former rainbow jersey holder Mark Cavendish, who seemed to want to slip past Sagan in the six or seven inches of space between the Slovakian and the rows of tempered steel outlining the course.

Sagan had problems of his own to manage, sitting third wheel behind Arnaud Demare (who would take the win) and only the gap to Demare’s right available. Sagan seemed to move into the space, toward the barrier, slamming the door on Cavendish, who went down in a heap and out of the Tour.

No one could agree on what happened . Cavendish sure looked like the victim, with Sagan clearly flaring out his elbow. That is, until you slow down the tape and realize that Cavendish seemed to be going down before the elbow went out, and that Sagan appeared to be correcting his balance, shifting his weight to the right to stop himself from keeling over to the left.

Was the crash Sagan’s fault for pinning Cavendish against the barrier, or Cavendish’s fault for sticking his nose where it didn’t belong? Was it Demare’s fault for moving in to create the circumstances of the crash? Was it somehow Nacer Bouhanni’s fault? (One unwritten rule that most can agree on is that Bouhanni is doing something wrong at all times).

Sagan ultimately got the blame for making an almost imperceptible move to hinder Cavendish. Tempers flared, ending a while later when the race jury threw Sagan off the Tour, a decision that no one particularly liked.

The episode was a good lesson in how crashes aren’t always what they appear to be at first glance — or second, third, and fourth glance, for that matter.

From time to time, cyclists will just fall off a mountain

One last, particularly memorable category of crashes merits discussion: riders falling off mountains. In my memory they all have somewhat miraculous endings … knock on wood, cross myself, and say a little prayer to the Cycling Gods.

The dramatic history starts with Roger Rivière falling into a ravine on a descent of the 1960 Tour. The maillot jaune , following his rival and ace descender Gustavo Nencini, hit the retaining wall and disappeared, falling 20 meters and breaking two vertebrae, but surviving. Even crazier was the disappearance of Tour boss Bernard Hinault on the eve of his first campaign. In the 1977 Dauphiné, Hinault, in the race lead, lost control on a descent, flipped sideways, and fell off the road. Hinault initially thought he was plunging to his death, but somehow landed intact, got help climbing out of the ravine, and went on to win the stage.

More recently, Frank Schleck, a poor bike handler, flipped over a guardrail on a descent during the 2008 Tour de Suisse and completely disappeared . Those of us watching thought he was dead, but he hit some branches on his way down and got away with scratches and bruises, finishing the race. A month later at the Tour, John-Lee Augustyn ascended the Cime de la Bonette, Europe’s highest road, only to overcook a turn and slide 30 feet down a steep, rocky slope. He eventually crawled out gingerly on all fours, but his chances of winning were gone, as was his bike, which was last seen still sliding. Augustyn eventually got a new one and finished the stage five minutes back.

This is all to say that cyclists are shockingly resilient despite the lack of protection around their bird-like frames. With any luck, crashes won’t be the talk of the Tour anytime soon, but they’ve come to be as inevitable as death, taxes, and Germany advancing at the World Cup.

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CYCLING : Tour suffers bumpy landing

By Samuel Abt, International Herald Tribune

July 10, 2004

Mass crashes continued to disrupt the Tour de France on Friday, with the worst of them occurring a kilometer from the finish and leaving 20 riders sprawled on the road, including Lance Armstrong, the defending champion.

"Two guys went down in front of me and there's nothing you can do," he said. "I hit the brakes but went down, too, and guys ran into me.

"They've got the crowd barriers really tight there, and you get 200 guys raging through at 40 miles an hour and what the hell do you think is going to happen."

Neither the American leader of the U.S. Postal Service team nor most of the others involved were seriously injured, and only René Haselbacher, an Austrian with Gerolsteiner, had to go to a hospital for X-rays, which showed three broken ribs and a broken nose. He later withdrew from the race.

It was the second crash of the day for Armstrong, who crossed the finish line with his uniform shorts torn and his right knee scraped. "I'm a little stiff in the hip," he reported.

The mass fall near the finish sliced the 179-man pack in two: about 25 men were ahead of the crash and fought it out in a sprint to the line.

Everybody else was blocked a kilometer, or five-eighths of a mile, behind them.

Tom Boonen, a Belgian with Quick Step, was the easy winner, with Stuart O'Grady, an Australian with Cofidis, second and Erik Zabel, a German with T-Mobile, third.

The 34-year-old Zabel, for many years until the last two a dominating Tour sprinter, gave Boonen, 23 and one of the best of the young generation, a congratulatory pat once across the line, as if to pass the baton.

The winner had a time of 4 hours 33 minutes 41 seconds for the 196-kilometer sixth stage, or 121 miles, from Bonneval to Angers in western France. That translated to a rapid 42.9 kilometers an hour as a two-day rain ended and strong winds died down.

There was no change in the overall standings, where Thomas Voeckler, a Frenchman with Brioches la Boulangère, remained in the yellow jersey by 3'01" over O'Grady, with Armstrong sixth, 9'35" behind.

Those standings would have changed dramatically if the crash had occurred a minute sooner.

"Fortunately, the crash happened 10 meters inside the final kilometer flag," Armstrong said. "So we all got the same time."

The rules stipulate that any rider falling in the last kilometer gets the same time as the winner as long as the crash victim crosses the line with his bicycle. Outside the red flag that marks the final kilometer, a rider who crashes gets his real time at the line.

Two big names among the sprinters were missing Friday. Mario Cipollini and Alessandro Petacchi, both Italians, failed to start because of injuries.

Cipollini's Domina Vacanze team reported that a gash in the right tibia he ripped in a crash in May in the Giro d'Italia had reopened. Petacchi was badly bruised in a crash Thursday.

For Cipollini, who rarely still races at his best, the end was not unexpected. His heart was elsewhere after he did not come close to a victory in this Tour.

Neither did Petacchi, and that is astounding. The king of the sprinters, with 24 victories in the three major stage races in the last year, did no better here than eighth place twice. At this point in the last Tour, he had bagged four victories.

In the week since this race began, Petacchi seems to have reverted to the years when he was nobody, nowhere, a button man in the hierarchy of bicycle racing.

After Petacchi turned professional in 1996, he spent four years with the minor Scrigno and Navigare teams in Italy, recording just one victory while doing the team's work. When he joined the powerhouse Fassa Bortolo team in 2000, it was the same routine. If there was a thankless job to be done — chase after a breakaway, lug water bottles — Yo! Petacchi.

Was somebody needed to set a rapid pace toward the finish line for the team's sprinter in his slipstream and then peel off to let him burst by? Hey, Alessandro, up there!

Petacchi did the donkey work of leadout rider until the 2000 Vuelta a España, that autumn when the directeur sportif of his team, Giancarlo Ferretti, realized that the sprinter, Fabio Baldato, could barely remain in the slipstream — Petacchi was too fast.

It was, as they say, a eureka moment. Ferretti immediately ordered the two riders to reverse roles, with Baldato becoming the leadout, Petacchi the designated sprinter. Within a week, he won two sprints in the Vuelta.

But Fassa Bortolo was built then around star riders with a chance to win big races and classics, not sprinters who could win a daily stage.

Over the next two years, the stars generally failed to perform and so the team's goal was changed to accommodate Petacchi and the fearsome speed he generates over the last 200 meters of a race.

Last year he won six stages in the Giro d'Italia, four in the Tour de France and five in the Vuelta.

"My life changed when I won the first stage of the Giro and took the pink jersey," Petacchi has said. "That changed everything for me. It gave me extra motivation and drive."

He continued on that upward curve until this Tour.

Last month, when the Giro ended, Petacchi had won nine of 11 sprint finishes, a post-World War II record. What were expected to be his duels with Cipollini were highly anticipated in this race — the sprinter kings, past and present.

As Petacchi said before the start, speaking of Cipollini, "If he decided to be here, it's because he feels he can still do something."

Not this Tour, though, not by either of them.

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Sunday’s EuroFile: Vasseur takes the Tour of Hesse

Vasseur takes the tour of hessecedric vasseur (cofidis) took the final overall victory at germany’s tour of hesse, as telekom’s daniele nardello took the fifth and final stage of the race, a 170.2km run between wetzlar and wiesbaden.results–stage 51. daniele nardello (i), telekom, at 170.2 km in 4:23:06 2. franck renier (f) 3. serge baguet (b), both s.t. 4. sven teutenberg (g), at 0:3:01 5. rene haselbacher (a), at 0:5:16 6. danilo hondo (g)final standings 1. cedric vasseur (f), cofidis, 22:35:16. 2. maryan hary (f), at 0:03 3. axel merckx (b), at 0:07 4. sylvain chavanel (f), at 0:37 5..

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Vasseur takes the Tour of Hesse Cedric Vasseur (Cofidis) took the final overall victory at Germany’s Tour of Hesse, as Telekom’s Daniele Nardello took the fifth and final stage of the race, a 170.2km run between Wetzlar and Wiesbaden. Results–Stage 5 1. Daniele Nardello (I), Telekom, at 170.2 km in 4:23:06 2. Franck Renier (F) 3. Serge Baguet (B), both s.t. 4. Sven Teutenberg (G), at 0:3:01 5. Rene Haselbacher (A), at 0:5:16 6. Danilo Hondo (G) Final Standings 1. Cedric Vasseur (F), Cofidis, 22:35:16. 2. Maryan Hary (F), at 0:03 3. Axel Merckx (B), at 0:07 4. Sylvain Chavanel (F), at 0:37 5. Frederic Gabriel (F), at 0:39 6. Bjoern Glasner (G), at 0:57. 7. Nicolas Jalabert (F), at 0:58 8. Philippe Gaumont (F), at 0:59 .

Dumoulin takes stage 4 at Tour de l’Avenir Frenchman Samuel Dumoulin (Jean Delatour) won the fourth stage of the Tour de l’Avenir cycliste on Sunday, a 233.5km race from Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre to Le Rouget.Swedish national team rider Thomas Lovkvist, who finished second on the day, moved into the overall lead. Stage results 1. Samuel Dumoulin (F) Jean Delatour, 233.5km in 5:49:30 (40.086kph) 2. Thomas Lovkist (S) at 0:02 3. Jukka Vastaranta (Fin), at 0:32 4. Maxim Iglinsky (KZK) 5. Josu Silloniz (Sp) 6. Gustavo Dominguez (Sp) 7. James Vanlandschoot (B) 8. Gustavo Cesar-Veloso (Sp) 9. Nico Sijmens (B) 10. Jonas Ljungblad (S), all s.t Overall Standings 1. Thomas Lovkvist (S), 14 h 02:01 2. Benoit Vaugrenard (F), at 0:ˆ 25 3. Samuel Dumoulin (F), at 0:27 4. Joost Posthuma (Nl), at 0:29 5. Tiann Kannemeyer (AFS), at 0:31 6. Sebastien Rosseler (B), at 0:33 7. Michiel Elijzen (Nl), at 0:35 8. David Herrero (Sp), at 0:41 9. Nicolas Meunier (F), at 0:42 10. Philippe Gilbert (B), s.t.

Sacchi takes Tour de Romagne Saeco’s Fabio Sacchi won the 78th edition of the Tour de Romagne, a 196 km race that finished in Ravenne in central Italy on Sunday. Results 1. Fabio Sacchi (I), Saeco,196 km in 5:00:50 (38.183kph), 2. Eddy Serri (I), at 0:10 3. Eddy Ratti (I), at 0:12 4. Daniele Contrini (I), at 0:50 5. Roger Beuchat (Swi), 6. Paolo Bossoni (I), 7. Ludovic Turpin (F), 8. Volodimir Duma (UKR), 9. Bo Hamburger (Dk), all s.t. 10. Martin Hvastija (Slo

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Haselbacher to Astana

Rene Haselbacher is celebrating his 29th birthday today with a two-year contract with Team Astana....

Rene Haselbacher is celebrating his 29th birthday today with a two-year contract with Team Astana. "After eight years with Gerolsteiner I had the feeling that I was in a rut. My position in the team was not what I hoped it would be. And the pressure from the young German riders has increased in the last few years. I want to say that I am parting on good terms with Hans-Michael Holczer. They were good years, but after all this time, it was time to make a change, in order to get new motivation."

"It is a great honour for me to be on the same team with Alexandre Vinokourov, Andreas Klöden and Andrey Kashechkin. I am convinced that Astana will be the best Pro Tour team next year," he said. "The team's main goal for 2007 is clearly the Tour de France. My job will mainly be to at the front in the sprint stages and in the Classics. I don't yet know whether I will ride the Tour. But it is clear to me: Cycling consists of a lot more than just the Tour de France!"

Astana is expected to make a team presentation next month in Switzerland.

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René Haselbacher
René Haselbacher (born 1977-09-15 in Unterwart) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Austria, active between 1995 and 2010. His best results are winning GC International Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt and winning a stage in Int. Österreich-Rundfahrt - Tour of Austria.
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International. Our Story. The name RH77, was formed from the initials of the founder René Haselbacher and birth year 1977. The former professional cyclist started at numerous big races like, the Tour de France, Giro de Italia and Vuelta, to name a few, as well as representing Austria at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
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René Haselbacher had hoped to make the breakthrough this year, and finally replace his reputation of a crash pilot with that of a winner. He thought he was on the right path, winning the ...
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René Haselbacher
René Haselbacher (born 15 September 1977 in Vienna) is an Austrian retired professional road bicycle racer.He rode for major teams Gerolsteiner and Astana, and took national titles in both road racing and the time trial.He won the Austrian National Road Race Championships in 2002. He left Vorarlberg-Corratec in the summer of 2010, and retired the following year, when he moved to South Africa.
Statistics by season for René Haselbacher
René Haselbacher had 24 racedays in season 2010, compared to 42 racedays in 2009. ... Grand Tours. Tour de France; Giro d'Italia; Vuelta a España; Major Tours. Paris-Nice; Tirreno-Adriatico; Volta a Catalunya; Tour de Romandie; Tour de Suisse; Critérium du Dauphiné ...
Grand tour results for René Haselbacher
René Haselbacher has 5 starts in grand tours, 2 starts in the Tour de France, 1 in the Giro d'Italia and 2 starts in the Vuelta a Espana. ... Tour de France: DNF: 5: 1: 2002: Giro d'Italia: 106: 21: 3: Per year. Year Giro Tour Vuelta; 2006: 2005: 2004: 2003: 2002: 2: 2: Common. Overview; Statistics by season; Key events; World map of rider ...
Haselbacher sick of being Crash King
The 29 year-old Austrian is also hoping to be named to the team's Tour de France squad later this year. Last year he did not make the squad, despite a good showing in the Tour de Suisse.
Tourstats.dk
René Haselbacher: Tour de France 2024 starts in Florence, Italy in. Stats and Facts from Tour de France. Team presentation 1998: ... Source: Tour de France. Stage 1 on June 30th. 1948 - Winner: Gino Bartali in 06h 50' 24" Todays birthdays. 1890 • Gaston Degy: 1903 • Germain Bezille:
René Haselbacher
René Haselbacher is a 45 year old cyclist from Austria (born September 15th 1977). Road Junior Amateur Cyclocross MTB Track Fantasy. ... Tour de France One-day race Stage race. Date Pos GC Race Distance CAT; 2004-07-25: 2004: 25.07: DNF: Tour de France: GT: 2003-07-27: 2003: 27.07: DNF: Tour de France: GT: 2004-07-10: 2004:
Gerolsteiner (cycling team)
In 2003 the team participated in the Tour de France for the first time. The leader for several seasons was Georg Totschnig, who recorded top 10 finishes in the Tour de France and was an excellent climber. ... René Haselbacher Stage 9 Tour of Sweden, Tobias Steinhauser Stage 5 Tour of Denmark, Olaf Pollack Stage 4 Tour du Poitou Charentes et de ...
Haselbacher retires after 15 years in the peloton
René Haselbacher quite focused, with (L to R) Robert Förster, Sven Montgomery and "Paco" Wrolich (Image credit: Mani Wollner/foto-grafik-satz.de) Rene Haselbacher has retired after 15 years a ...
PDF It All Starts With an Idea and Begins With a Ride.
René Haselbacher is a multiple starter of Tour de France and represented Austria at the Summer Olympics in Sydney. In his time as a professional, he rode for both Gerolsteiner and Astana. It is during these times that René Haselbacher participated in the material selection and design of these teams' cycling apparel to optimise functionality ...
Results in monument classics for René Haselbacher
René Haselbacher results in Paris-Roubaix, Tour of Flanders, Milan-SanRemo, Liege-Bastogne-Liege and Il Lombardia. His best result is 28th in Milano-Sanremo 2003.
Haselbacher wins after long break in Austrian tour
Astana's René Haselbacher outsprinted his breakaway companion at the end of the fifth stage of the Tour of Austria Friday, winning the 185 kilometer race from Neustadt to Bad Vöslau and grabbing the points jersey for his efforts as well. ... Tour de France; More. Giro d'Italia;
Haselbacher disappointed
Gerolsteiner's René Haselbacher is disappointed not to have been nominated to ride the Tour de France for the second year in a row. "It went just like last year, but with the little difference ...
CYCLING : Tour suffers bumpy landing
Mass crashes continued to disrupt the Tour de France on Friday, with the worst of them occurring a kilometer from the finish and leaving 20 riders sprawled on the road, including Lance Armstrong ...
Haselbacher considering his future
For the second year in a row, Haselbacher was not selected to Gerolsteiner's Tour de France team, a fact which "makes me sick," he told www.sport1.at.His contract with the team expires this year ...
Sunday's EuroFile: Vasseur takes the Tour of Hesse
Vasseur takes the Tour of HesseCedric Vasseur (Cofidis) took the final overall victory at Germany's Tour of Hesse, as Telekom's Daniele Nardello took the fifth and final stage of the race, a 170.2km run between Wetzlar and Wiesbaden.Results-Stage 51. Daniele Nardello (I), Telekom, at 170.2 km in 4:23:06 2. Franck Renier (F) 3. Serge Baguet (B), both s.t. 4.
Haselbacher to Astana
Rene Haselbacher is celebrating his 29th birthday today with a two-year contract with Team Astana. "After eight years with Gerolsteiner I had the feeling that I was in a rut.

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