Cycling - Tour de France - The 194.5-km Stage 1 from Brussels to Brussels - July 6, 2019 - Team INEOS rider Geraint Thomas of Britain in action in the peloton. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Defending champion Geraint Thomas suffered a scare near the end of the opening stage of the Tour de France on Saturday when he hit the deck after being entangled in a pile-up.
The Team Ineos rider was inside the last three kilometres of the 194km stage which started and finished in Brussels when several riders in the peloton went down and Thomas ended up in the barriers.
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