International sports, cycling
Wettigen, Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The fourth leg of the Tour de Suisse ended Tuesday 15 June with a crash that brought down 20 riders just 50 metres from the finish line. It saw Briton Tony Cavendish go from the lead to the ground, with a fine and several penalties for causing the pile-up. Yesterday’s 196km race was won by Italy’s Alessandro Petacchi.
Cavendish’s bike touched Heinrich Haussler’s, winner of the previous day’s race, bringing them both down. Cavendish suffered minor injuries, mainly road burns, but Haussler has a deep puncture wound to his right elbow and is now out of the race.
Tony Martin remains in the lead as they race the fifth leg, from Wettigen to Frutigen Wednesday.
Links to other sites: Bike Radar, Tour de Suisse (Fre) and video on SF
Central France (GenevaLunch) – German rider Heinrich Haussler broke from the pack in only the third kilometre of Friday’s stage in the Tour de France, and he gradually left the other members of the breakaway group to take the stage by more than five minutes, with the pack another two minutes back.
