Van Poppel makes an amazing save in Tour de Suisse stage 4 finale
Team Sky sprinter Danny van Poppel relied on his bike handling skills to take an emergency exit from the final corner of stage 4 at the Tour de Suisse, grabbing a handful of brake and momentarily executing a front wheelie after the inside line he was hoping to take suddenly looked impossible.
Van Poppel put his right foot on the ground as he slid toward the barriers in the tight right corner that came just 140 metres from the finish in Champagne. Van Poppel set up for a line inside of Sagan, but the 22-year-old Dutchman was forced wide into the barriers, somehow managing to stay upright and avoid a high-speed crash.
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Etixx-QuickStep’s Max Richeze and Fernando Gaviria finished first and second on the stage, followed by overall race leader Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) in third. Van Poppel eventually crossed the line in 26th place, two seconds behind the top three.
Trek-Segafredo's Jasper Stuyven, who finished fifth and so had a front-row seat for Van Poppel's ride, said he could tell someone wasn't going to make it through the corner.
"Going into the last corner Sagan and Van Poppel were going nuts and I was sure someone wasn't going to make it through, and I was right because Danny crashed," Stuyven said. "I calculated for that, and as a result, I was almost standing still to go around, and then one guy passed me on the line."
— Matt Brammeier (@Mattbrammeier85) June 14, 2016
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