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Slip and slide at the Tour of Croatia

Slippery corner in the TTT at the Tour of Croatia resulted in riders from a number of teams slipping gracefully across the wet road.

April 23, 2016
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A slippery corner on the Stage-5 team time trial at the Tour of Croatia caught riders from a number of teams off guard. Despite a road marshall on the corner warning teams to slow down, riders from Team Dimension-Data, Tinkoff and Synergy Baku Cycling Project lost traction and slipped out on the corner. On a stage defined by the wet conditions and obvious efforts by the riders to take the course cautiously, water on the road appears to have made this particular section of the course particularly treacherous. Thankfully none of the riders appear to have been injured by their fall.

Despite loosing a rider in the final corner, Tinkoff won the TTT averaging 48.75-kph over the 40.3-km course that took the riders from Porec to Umag. Gazprom-RusVelo came in 4-seconds back while CCC Sprandi Polkowice took the final step of the podium. Croatian rider Matija Kvasina and his Synergy Baku Cycling Project team took fourth place on the stage to retain the overall lead in the general classification heading into Sunday’s sixth and final stage. Jesper Hansen (Tinkoff) stayed out of trouble when his teammate Juraj Sagan slid out to retain his second place in the GC, 32-seconds behind Kvasina.

On Stage 1 of the Tour of Croatia which is in its second edition, Canadian Guillaume Boivin (Cycling Academy Team) made a bid for victory by escaping solo in the final kilometers but was caught in the final 3-km and Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek-Segafredo) would sprint to victory.

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