Frank Schleck Dramatic Crash - Tour de Suisse 5th

Frank Schleck (Team CSC) was together with Markus Fothen (Gerolsteiner) 25 seconds ahead of the group with leader Igor Anton (Euskatel). He could grab the leaders jersey without any problem. Then suddenly he ran wide at a corner at took a tumble in to the ravine. Luckly he survived. On this movie you see the fall, Anton 'forcing' the group to slow down and Kloden checking on Schleck. Eventually the stage-win went to Fothen, ahead of Sergei Ivanov of Astana and Markus Zberg (who's a teammate of Fothen). Apart from that Gerolsteiner-cycler Olivier Zaugg rised one place cause Damiano Cunego did a bad job and the fall of Schleck. Fothen also lessened his gap with Anton, who stayed in the leaders-jersey ahead of Kim Kirchen (Team High Road) and Olivier Zaugg.

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[tugaorgulhoso]

andreas kloden was absolutly friendly. that was some good quality fairplay

[koalagirl1]

He just vanished!!! That's incredible. Thank for putting this up, I read about it but didn't have any idea of how dramatic it was. Glad he was OK.

[haiiyaa]

Would have been scared to sit on a bike after that crash :D

[POOKNAHOON]

God that must of hurt!!

[lkb3rd]

So, he goes over a ravine, they cut away, and when they catch up he looks like he's got a spare bike ready to continue...... ?? Wow.

[FirstClassJap]

Fuck det er useriøst Kreuz ;)

[wsman18]

Oh my goodness, how far did he fall? It looks like he went through the top of a tree canopy and fell 20 Ft or something, that looked really bad!

[EilertPilarmDM]

Did you or anyone capture the stage finish of this year's Tour de Suisse with the HUGE cowbell rolling right across the road near the finish?

That could have been a bad day for the rider who almost hit the cowbell, but of course since it rolled across and no one hit it, it was effing hilarious!!!