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Unbelievable bike handling from Peter Sagan to avoid Fabian Cancellara crash (video)

Peter Sagan bunny-hops over Fabian Cancellara's bike after the Swiss hits the cobbles in Paris-Roubaix

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published 10 April 2016

Peter Sagan kept his chances of winning Paris-Roubaix intact by bunny-hopping over a crashing Fabian Cancellara on the Mons-en-Pévèle cobbled sector.

Already 40 seconds down on the lead group, Cancellara and Sagan were pushing hard to connect back up with the group up the road, which formed nearly 100km earlier.

Cancellara, sitting third wheel in his group, slipped on a muddy part of the sector and went down hard, but Sagan, on the Swiss's wheel, somehow managed to avoid going down and continued his pursuit.

>>> Chaos, crashes and flat tyres: Tom Boonen recaps a ‘standard’ Paris-Roubaix

But with 40km to go his small group was 1-10 down on the front group, which contained Tom Boonen, Ian Stannard, Sep Vanmarcke and Edvald Boasson Hagen.

Cancellara managed to get back on his bike, but by then was nearly three minutes down on the front group and his race was over.

Both Sagan and Cancellara were stranded behind the Boonen group after a crash on one of the earlier cobbled sectors split the peloton.

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Stuart Clarke

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Stuart Clarke is a News Associates trained journalist who has worked for the likes of the British Olympic Associate, British Rowing and the England and Wales Cricket Board, and of course Cycling Weekly. His work at Cycling Weekly has focused upon professional racing, following the World Tour races and its characters.

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