Either it always falls on advertisement breaks, or they decided not to show the descent any more. Anyway, I haven't heard of crashes.

France🇫🇷 dominated a weak field, as Belgium was absent, as well as Britain who didn't take part in the EC at all, and Italy didn't bring Ganna or any of its mass start top performers.

Its women team was very strong and homogenous. All 3 were climbers of a sort. Squiban is not categorised as a climber yet she won two consecutive stages in Tour de France 2025 by attacking in mountain passes... A pity others didn't wait for her after the downhill section (she was frightened by the descent), as she did the last 8 km flat section, alone, as fast her two teammates and finished just a few seconds behind them.

On the men side... pff... I am going to rant again about the coach. He was set up on Armirail and Cavagna. OK, why not, 1 TT & all-terrain, 1 TT specialist. Cavagna was expected to be a weak point in the climb, but could do it if they were careful. But then, I would have thought he would select a climber as 3^rd^ man (climber-climber, climber-puncher, climber-rouleur, climber-whatever): the climber would have given a couple of relays in the beginning, lead the climb under the command of the other two (possibly dropping Cavagna if needed), arrived fresh as a daisy on the top and therefor able to pull on the hilly plateau, then rested in the descent, and perhaps given a last big relay at the start of the flat section.

Instead, the men's coach picked yet another TT-specialist, even more limited in climbs than Cavagna (by far) and who's been crap all along 2026 (even in his discipline, he was beaten by an amateur in the National Championship ITT...). So the guy completely blew up after 6 or 7 km, and left the other two at the mercy of any sort of problems: Cavagna blowing up, a puncture, a big or small crash.

The coach is still dead set or underestimating the climb after seeing it ridden 20 times, that's amazing.

Poland🇵🇱 lost their medal on the women side, after an honest performance by the men (Kwiatkowski was present).

There too, they had brought, among the 3 gals, a TT specialist who blew up as soon as the climb started, and a kid the third one had to always wait during the climb, arrived cooked on the top, and therefore had to be waited again on the hilly plateau as soon as there was 2% of slope as she never recovered.

They were taken over by the French team, who had started 4 minutes later...