The video is impressive! Terrible. Chilling. While she is slowing down to avoid a fall in front of her, the Italian Marta Cavalli (FDJ-Suez Futuroscope) is violently hit from behind by the Australian champion, Nicole Frain, arriving at full speed. The shock, which occurred on the roads of Seine-et-Marne 25 kilometers from the finish of the 2nd stage of the women’s Tour de France, is of rare violence. Carried away by the speed of her machine, the runner who came from behind was thrown several meters away, she fortunately got up quite quickly. Which is not the case of the Italian who remained on the ground for a long time.
She was taken care of by the emergency services. Cavalli, victorious at the Giro and candidate for the coronation of the event, was forced to give up. “Marta suffers from a head trauma, explains Stephen Delcourt, the manager of FDJ-Suez-Futuroscope. She’s going to have a scan at the hospital. I am very sad for her. »
Three falls followed one another in the last thirty kilometers in a final made very nervous by the wind and gusts up to 45 km / h which raised fears of edges, namely breaks in the peloton. But of these many collisions, that of Cavalli will undoubtedly remain the most violent.
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