Tim Merlier's Close Call! #Shorts

Not something you see every day at a bike race! #Shorts

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[Quorented]

When you've already won but you go back to spectate

[bigflow]

He remembered that he was supposed to bring groceries home

[Anuituu]

For the background:
"When I crossed the finish line to ride back to the team parking, I sincerely thought that all the riders had arrived, as I wasn’t stopped and there was only one group behind us in the race, ” Merlier wrote on social media.
“It was by no means my intention to endanger anyone, and I would like to apologize if I did.”
After crossing the line, Merlier can be seen at the 200m to go mark scrambling over the barrier alongside the course as a small group of racers bore directly down on him.
The Belgian had finished in ninth place in the race won solo by Alexander Kristoff.

[SF-wrzn]

When you’ve already finished and you go back to see where your mates are 😂

[Santos]

Google: "Go straight ahead"
Bing:

[dragonfly]

The commentator throwing out mega sass for no reason 😂

[Silver_Fang]

To anyone wondering what was happening here
Tim Merlier finished in 9th, forty seconds behind. After finishing, he turned around to head to the team cars as he thought that all the participants have cleared the race but suddenly noticed the bunch sprint for 10th was coming right at him.

[jimmypierce]

Now that's what I call a good sportsman 😁🙏👌😎

[fredrikolsen]

Respect. He took action. Ordinary people just freeze and make a crash scene if they end up in that situation

[randycallow]

This guy's form right now..if he sprinted into an incoming group they would fall like bowling pins..he is going really really great and this year has many sprinters showing great early form.. going to be a fantastic year for bike racing

[shreeveda]

All those cyclists got a shock: thought they were in the wrong direction.

[Literallyarealhuman]

Smart reaction it’s not what you do it’s how to deal w it

[svarthofde]

He was actually going to Lidl for Greek Week or something

[rexmatthewaro]

Let's just be thankful no one was harm by Tim reflexes.

[dwaynerandolph]

That was some quick thinking & reacting 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽📌

[Taekem]

The same thing will surely happn this year after Granon’s stage in the TDF. There is only one way to go back 🤓

[kenx]

The group was like 'holy shit should we avoid him'? 🤣

[greenleafycabbage]

When your biking your way to work and decided to take a short cut

[prstim]

Don’t know if it’s just me but every time I watch this, i find it very interesting how he unclips

[InternetStuff]

Thank you for being civilized and intelligent. 👍