Wout van Aert crashes, nearly hits car in shocking day for yellow jersey at Tour de France

Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) narrowly avoided disaster on Stage 5 of the Tour de France as he crashed and then nearly hit a team car. The race leader first got into problems with 96km to go with some road furniture bringing him down.

Ad/> He would shrug that off, jump on a non-optimised bike but then nearly hit a team car as he attempted to get back on. /> Tour de France‘It is difficult to explain’ — Van der Poel on lukewarm start to Tour de France44 MINUTES AGO The 27-year-old would show supreme bike-handling to stay on, but looked shaken ahead of the trickiest part of the stage on the cobbles.

/> /> «That’s proof just how nervous the day is, we’re not on the cobbles, we’re racing to them,» said Carlton Kirby on Eurosport commentary. «It’s something we have said in the past...it’s not necessarily the cobbles that bring you down, it can be the actual run to it and it’s street furniture that has brought him down.

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