Schleck, Vansummeren and others crash

Three and a half kilometres before the end of stage 5, Isaac Galvez touched the wheel in front of him and brought down several riders, including Daniele Bennati, Franck Schleck and Johan Vansummeren. The latter told Sportwereld.be that he got out of it relatively unharmed. "I tried to avoid the crash," he said. "Just when I stopped, Schleck ran into me from behind. I fell over, smack on top of the Luxembourger."

It wasn't so bad for Vansummeren, but Schleck came off worse - not because of injury, but because he ended up losing 2'07. The crash happened just before the "safety zone" at 3 km to go, and the CSC rider therefore didn't get bunch time.

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