"There was no reason to take the turn as if you were in the final three kilometers" - Geraint Thomas puts Vingegaard's Tour crash responsibility on Visma
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Jonas Vingegaard's crash and withdrawal from the Tour de France has been one of the race's marking moments. But the debate on who the responsibility lies on continues. Geraint Thomas, Netcompany INEOS sports director, does not hesitate to put in on Team Visma | Lease a Bike's unnecessary risks.
Excessive risks mean Visma was to blame for Vingegaard crash?
With INEOS completely out of the fight for the overall classification, and not being a factor in the fight for the win on stage 15, Thomas had no specific investment on a day where Visma did not allow the breakaway to gain much ground.
The Welshman has been part of the peloton for decades at this point - now behind the wheel. When discussing the Dane's crash, there was no hesitation in sharing that he believes Visma and Vingegaard are fully to blame for the incident.
“They were riding to win the stage. If you’re so tired that you crash because your reactions are too slow, you’re not going to win a stage in the Tour either,” Geraint Thomas said in words on his Watts Occuring podcast.
The fall happened on an area with a traffic island and a right-hand corner. Vingegaard suffered a fractured collarbone as a result, ending the work of months, and two weeks of Tour de France.
“As far as I’m concerned, they went into the roundabout too fast. They took it in a strange way, and he fell. Armirail and Campenaerts had fallen back from the lead group, and Campenaerts was in the lead. To me, he was just going too fast. There was no reason to take the turn as if you were in the final three kilometers.”
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Should Visma have taken the corner more easily?
Thomas argued that Visma took the corner at full speed, taking excessive risks that led to the crash. The responsibility has been attributed, depending on the person commenting, on the organization's lack of proper signaling in the corner; and also possibly on Vingegaard's.
“I get it, but at the same time, I’d say: you’re the one on the bike, you’re leading the group, and you have your own brakes. You know there are some tricky turns. Of course it can have an effect, but I’d say: just take it a little easier.”
His former teammate Ben Swift agreed on the risks taken by Visma were to blame, and were an incident that came from nowhere for a reason.
“They passed a lot of dangerous spots before that turn—one of the last turns before the final climb. It’s such an isolated incident, so far removed from that moment, and a lot has happened since then. It can’t be related.”
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