Wellens amuses teammate De Gendt with slow-motion crash in snow – Video

Tim Wellens – in the polka-dot jersey as the 'king of the mountains' leader – and Lotto Soudal teammate Thomas De Gendt share a joke on stage 11 of the 2019 Tour de France
Tim Wellens – in the polka-dot jersey as the 'king of the mountains' leader – and Lotto Soudal teammate Thomas De Gendt share a joke on stage 11 of the 2019 Tour de France (Image credit: Getty Images)

Lotto Soudal's Tim Wellens got a little more than he'd bargained for when he attempted to negotiate a snowy off-road descent on his bike in the Spanish Montañas Vacías range, with his subsequent crash captured on film by teammate and co-adventurer Thomas De Gendt, who couldn't quite contain his amusement.

In a Twitter post captioned "When you think you found a shortcut", De Gendt uses his helmet cam to film his friend Wellens negotiating patches of snow on a grassy and rocky slope before he hits a new patch of snow, applies his brakes, and gently goes over the handlebars of his fully laden bike, landing in the snow, and eliciting laughter from De Gendt.

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