The stage 6 finish of the Tour de Suisse has come under criticism by the peloton for being unsafe and dangerous. The wet weather of the stage added to their difficulty of the technical finale which featured several sharp corners and traffic furniture. Peter Sagan demonstrated his bike skills in winning the stage but the Biel finish proved difficult for the majority of the peloton
IAM Cycling's Dries Devenyns asked why race organisers favour the tricky urban finishes.
"The stage was long, very wet, and especially dangerous in the finale. I don't understand the attraction of having that type of final kilometre which must be delicately negotiated," he said in a team release.
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Former race leader Tom Dumoulin expressed similar frustration with the finish on Twitter after he lost time due to a late split in the peloton.
"Almost crashed at 7 km to go and needed to come back to the front afterwards. Not far enough, because I lost 5 valuable seconds...," he wrote, adding "Had some time to think about it, but seriously, @tds, this final? Thanks for making GC riders take even more risk next time!"
Etixx-Quick duo Julien Vermote and Zdenek Stybar both crashed when trying to take a left-hand corner on the wet roads with Vermote also criticising the race organisation on Twitter.
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