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The video has been everywhere. This is a crazy crash and fortunately Frank Schleck made it out alright. Seems the racers who careen off of mountain roads usually make it OK. Oscar Pereiro crashed on the Col D’aubisque in the Tour in 2005 while busy with his musette and made it out OK. Jan Ulrich crashed on the Col de Peyresourde in 2001 in a very dramatic fashion, bike and all, but seemed to recover OK too.

Here is a link to an extended version of the incident

And here is another crash that is not as dramatic, but the cyclist goes into a creek off a corner during a descent in the 2007 Deutschland Tour 2007.

Oscar Pereiro the runner-up/winner in waiting of the 2006 Tour de France is in the headlines after French paper Le Monde publish a story detailing a positive drug test result for the Caisse D’Epargne rider. The drug test result was salbutamol a drug for which Pereiro has a medical waiver registered with the UCI. The French lab does not have the correct paper work and has been making requests since September.

“The cyclist’s own record and a study made in March last year demonstrate that Oscar has a sensitivity in his bronchioles which is greater than that of the average of the population, and that causes him to have to take medication if he presents symptoms that might justify it.”

The Spanish cyclist said Thursday — after Le Monde reported that he twice tested positive for salbutamol — that he would quickly send the French agency paperwork to show that he had a justified medical reason and waiver to take the medication, which is normally banned.

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