The Tour and the Terror
The Caisse d’Epargne rider toppled over a security barrier on his way down Col Agnel in the Alps between France and Italy, falling several metres onto the road below.
“I was going much faster than those on the left. I think that (Damiano) Cunego (Lampre team) got a slight fright. He made an abrupt manoeuvre and I couldn’t avoid him,” Pereiro told the Spanish press.
“I went over the barrier and I saw … I had a vision from high above. I saw myself in the air and hit my head. I though I was going to die and hoped to feel nothing. To be unconscious when I hit the ground.”