Tour De France 2011

This year has been terrible for injuries - I can't recall a season where so many big name riders have been wiped out of the peloton like this.

Have the speeds gone up? Or disturbingly, might one of the factors be that without doping in the peloton, the stresses of racing and the resulting lack of concentration means that more accidents occur?

Just a thought.

It's occurred to me that these intermediary sprints may in large be the cause of all these crashes..

Stage rolls out for a while then all hell breaks loose as the speed ups for the mid sprint and no one wants to get left out/dropped??? result being crash ban wallop???

My theory.