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Indyplus video: Johnny Hoogerland crash in Tour de France 2011

 

Tuesday 02 July 2013 18:36 BST
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Johnny Hoogerland, who looked as if he had been attacked by a leopard after tumbling into a barbed wire fence in a crash with a TV car during the 2011 Tour. The Dutch rider painted the road red for the rest of that day but continued the next morning after being sewn up by team doctors.

Watch the shocking crash on the video below:

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