Originally Posted by
Ken Brown
I agree that he is a smart rider, but smart people sometimes do dumb things. He crashed on stage 17 and he should have cycled the downhill conservatively. There was no way he was going to win the stage and he needs to get to Paris to collect the green jersey. I had the same thought about Alaphilipe on that downhill, don't risk a fall. Fuglsang kept up with him so he probably did hold back a bit.
To be fair, there was no film of the Sagan crash, so we don't really know how hard he was going. Besides, even guys that can ride as good as Sagan can make a mistake anytime.