Tadej Pogačar won stage two of the Tour de Romandie — but perhaps the bigger victory of the day belonged to Nadav Raisberg, who somehow stayed on his bike after a very close call.
"I have no idea how I did that. Suddenly I was almost crashing — and then I steered my bike with my chest. Pretty impressive, right?"
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"I don't know how I did it, but I guess I'll be famous now," Raisberg laughed in a video posted by the team after the stage.
Teammate Krists Neilands was swiftly named the funniest man in the comments. His contribution: "That brown stain in your shorts is going to be hard to wash out, bro!"
Video: Raisberg avoids hard crash in Romandie
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Solid NSN at the Tour de Romandie
It has been a solid week so far for NSN cycling in Switzerland. Gerorge Bennett and Marco Frigo both finished in the sprinting group on stage 2. Bennett moves up to 13th in the overall classification heading into Friday's climbing stage.
Bram van der Ploeg (35) is the proud founder of In de Leiderstrui, IDL Pro Cycling's parent site, launched in 2018. Finally, he could create stories about the sport he had followed since childhood. He is the editor-in-chief on paper, but prefers to be with his recorder next to a rider, a team bus, or in the mud at a cyclocross race. Every year, from February to the end of May, Bram follows the entire Italian cycling season, from the Trofeo Laigueglia to the Giro d'Italia, with the grand finale in October in Lombardy. During that time, he lives in Tuscany, where he has since come to call Italy his 'home'.