Advertising Read more Milan (AFP) Two riders from the German Bora-Hansgrohe team were caught up in a high-speed collision with a pedestrian on the opening team time-trial of the Tirreno-Adriatico race on Wednesday. Italy's Oscar Gatto and Poland's Rafal Majka collided with a man who crossed in front of competitors during the 21.5km team time-trial at Lido di Camaiore. "Initial reports indicate that Oscar Gatto has sustained some bruising, while Rafa? Majka went down somewhat harder," the team said on Twitter. "Further testing will need to be done to evaluate their injuries. However, both riders finished the stage today." Three-time world champion Peter Sagan of Slovakia avoided the collision in conditions which were already hazardous due to rain. The pedestrian was brought to hospital but his condition was reported not to be serious. ? 2019 AFP<doc-sep>A cycling race in Italy has been thrown into chaos as oblivious pedestrians walked onto the course, causing one bad crash and narrowly avoiding another. Key points: Cyclists Oscar Gatto and Rafal Majka had a nasty collision with a pedestrian at Italy's Tirreno-Adriatico race Cyclists Oscar Gatto and Rafal Majka had a nasty collision with a pedestrian at Italy's Tirreno-Adriatico race Their BORA - hansgrohe team lost nearly two minutes on the leaders after the opening team time trial Their BORA - hansgrohe team lost nearly two minutes on the leaders after the opening team time trial Australian team Mitchelton-SCOTT also had a close call with a woman and her dog on the road later in the same stage The incidents happened during the team time trial stage of this year's Tirreno-Adriatico race, set around the seaside town of Lido di Camaiore in Tuscany. Peter Sagan's BORA - hansgrohe team was travelling fast on a wet road early in their team time trial run when the crash occurred. A policeman was standing on the right-hand side of the road as a man started walking across — despite shouts of warning, the man kept going. BORA - hansgrohe rider Daniel Oss was leading his team and was able to avoid the man, but further back Polish rider Rafal Majka was not so lucky. Majka crashed into the pedestrian on the right edge of the road — behind him his teammate Oscar Gatto had nowhere to go, and crashed into Majka, hitting the ground. The man landed heavily on the pavement, motionless. He was taken to hospital, where it was believed his injuries were not life threatening. Loading Loading Both Gatto and Majka got up and finished the stage, but the team said tests would be done later. The BORA - hansgrohe team — led by triple world champion Sagan — finished last of the 20 teams, losing one minute 57 seconds on the leaders. Later in the race, the Australian-based Mitchelton-SCOTT team had a big scare in the final stages of their time trial run. Inside the last kilometre of the 21.5km course, the team's riders came around a corner as a woman and her dog stepped out on the road in front of them. She realised the danger and backed away with her dog in time as the riders swerved. Despite this near miss, Mitchelton-SCOTT finished with the fastest time, giving the leader's blue jersey [Maglia Azzurra] to Australian rider Michael Hepburn. This is not the first time this has happened at the Tirreno-Adriatico. Loading Two years ago, in the individual time trial final stage of the race around the eastern seaside town of San Benedetto del Tronto, Sagan had to take evasive action when a pedestrian and a dog crossed his path at the last moment. Sagan, who had to veer off the road onto the pavement to avoid hitting the pedestrian, then turned around and glared at the person. He could laugh it off after the race — at least on that occasion he and the dog-walker avoided injury. BORA - hansgrohe were not so lucky.<doc-sep>Gianni Moscon pulled out of Tirreno-Adriatico due to “feeling strange” after a crash earlier in the season, his sports director has said. The Team Sky rider pulled out of the Italian stage race after stage two, having struggled with his form since a crash at the UAE Tour earlier this month. Moscon will return home and undergo further tests, as he hopes to ride the Northern Classics in the coming weeks. >>> British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe to sponsor Team Sky with bigger budget, according to sources Sky sports director Matteo Tossato told Italian newspaper La Gazzetta Dello Sport: “Unfortunately, after the crash at the UAE Tour he didn’t recover well. “He has nothing broken but he feels strange. He says his legs always feel stiff, that they don’t loosen up while pedalling. “We did all the checkups but that crash did something to him and we could already see it at Strade Bianche. “Even at the [Tirreno-Adriatico] team time trial, we could see that it was not the usual Gianni.” The 24-year-old was caught in a number of crashes in the UAE Tour, the worst of which came on stage six during the run to the Jebel Jais summit finish. Tosatto said he came down hard on his right side after he hit a cat’s eye. He was eating at the time of the crash and so only had one hand on the handlebars, falling while travelling at speed in the bunch. >>> Sam Bennett makes late surge to take Paris-Nice 2019 stage six as Kwiatkowski retains lead Tosatto added: “After that he didn’t feel right, he didn’t feel like the usual Gianni. “He recovered but for days he had been saying something was wrong, like there was some limitation. “We have to allow him to recover and make further checks when he returns home.” Moscon is due to ride a full spring Classics schedule, starting with Milan-San Remo and on to the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. His Grand Tour calendar will see him ride the Giro d’Italia in support of Colombian talent Egan Bernal.<doc-sep>
See more Bora-Hansgrohe were caught in a collision at Tirreno-Adriatico when two riders collided with a pedestrian during the opening team time trial. The two riders were unable to avoid a man who was crossing the course during the 21.5km TTT on stage one. Oscar Gatto and Rafał Majka were the two riders caught in the crash, both hitting the pedestrian who fell to the floor. The Bora-Hansgrohe squad, which includes Peter Sagan, were in the opening three kilometres of their team effort when the crash happened. >>> Five things to look out for at the 2019 Tirreno-Adriatico Sagan and his other team-mates were able to avoid the collision, as the man appeared not to see the race speeding towards him. The remaining five riders crossed the line with a time of 22-44, ahead of Ag2r La Mondiale who posted a time of 24-26. Both Majka and Gatto were able to get back on their bikes and finished the stage. Conditions during the TTT, which started and finished at Lido di Camaiore, were already hazardous due to the rain which has saturated the roads. The team said on Twitter: "There's been a crash involving our guys on the course. "Initial reports indicate it was Oscar Gatto and Rafał Majka who were involved. "We'll update as soon as we know more." This is not the first time Sagan has narrowly avoided a crash on this stage of Tirreno-Adriatico. >>> ‘It was definitely worth getting a bit fat & enjoying it post-Tour’ says Geraint Thomas In 2017 during the opening time trial on the same roads at Lido di Camaiore the three-time world champion nearly collided with a woman and her dog who had walked out onto the course. Thankfully for the dog walker, Sagan was able to take evasive action, nipping through a gap in the raised kerb separating the road from an adjoining bike bath, with other spectators out of the way. His time trial ruined, an exasperated Sagan turned to shake his head at the woman before continuing with his ride. More to follow.