Carnage on the Tour de France Femmes with dozens of riders concerned in HUGE crash

The Tour de France Femmes was disturbed by an enormous crash which left a giant group of riders within the peloton on the bottom. 

The incident occurred halfway via the race as the ladies piled on prime of one another in what was a domino impact.   

Movistar rider Emma Norsgaard was wounded and left the race in an ambulance because of critical discomfort, although she was in a position to stand. 

SD Worx duo Lotte Kopecky and Chantal van den Broek-Blaak had been additionally caught up within the incident and the latter wanted to have her arm bandaged. 

Lorena Wiebes earned her second win of the Tour de France Femmes with victory on stage 5 to Saint-Die-des-Vosges.

Wiebes out-sprinted world champion Elisa Balsamo and race chief Marianne Vos so as to add to her victory within the opening stage on the Champs-Elysees on Sunday.

The incident occurred halfway via the race as the ladies piled on prime of one another

Movistar rider Emma Norsgaard was wounded within the incident and left the race in an ambulance

The massive crash had cut up the peloton with 45km remaining of the 176km stage from Bar-le-Duc – the longest ever stage of a ladies’s race within the trendy period – but it surely got here again collectively for a bunch end and there was no touching the in-form Wiebes.

With 4 bonus seconds for ending third on the stage, Vos – who has completed within the prime 5 on each stage thus far – stretched her benefit within the yellow jersey to twenty seconds from Silvia Persico and Kasia Niewiadoma.

However Vos’s fundamental objective on this inaugural Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift is the inexperienced jersey which is on the shoulders of Wiebes, who stretched her benefit with a second win – and the seventeenth of her season.

Requested if she was the perfect sprinter on the planet proper now, Wiebes stated: ‘If you wish to say it. I do not prefer to say it for myself. In the present day I used to be joyful to ship this dash after such an extended stage.

Lorena Wiebes earned her second win of the Tour de France Femmes with victory on Thursday

‘It is nonetheless a objective to get the inexperienced jersey however we additionally wish to keep within the normal classification with Juliette (Labous). In the present day was an actual workforce effort and that was crucial factor.’

After the chaos of Wednesday’s stage 4 on the gravel, this was a extra easy day, however the size of the stage gave it an unknown ingredient.

With 45km to go, a contact of wheels noticed the street blocked by an enormous crash. Most riders acquired going once more however Norsgaard was compelled to desert, leaving the race in an ambulance, whereas others wanted patching up.

Lotte Kopecky was amongst a gaggle of riders held up by greater than a minute in consequence, although all of it got here again collectively as the ultimate two riders from the day’s breakaway had been caught contained in the final three kilometres.

Belgian Lotte Kopecky was among the many group of riders held up by greater than a minute

There was a weird second as they got here down the ultimate straight as Elisa Longo Borghini, fourth general and Trek-Segafredo’s fundamental hope within the normal classification, took a incorrect flip as she adopted a TV digital camera bike off the course, a transfer that value her 9 seconds.

She now sits 34 seconds behind Vos, who will count on her result in come below higher strain on Friday’s hilly stage to Rosheim earlier than the weekend’s finale within the Vosges mountains.

‘It was a superb day,’ Vos stated. ‘We wished to do effectively, we wished to manage and keep out of hassle within the ultimate and do a superb leadout. It was very laborious. I feel everyone had the identical tactic and the final 20km went actually quick.’

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