WATCH: Geraint Thomas finishes stage despite horror crash

"Barguil was just going straight on and pushed me straight off into a big lamp-post and down a ditch."

WATCH: Geraint Thomas finishes stage despite horror crash

Geraint Thomas laughed off a dramatic crash which saw him clatter into a telegraph pole on stage 16 of the Tour de France.

Spaniard Ruben Plaza (Lampre-Merida) won the 201-kilometres route from Bourg-de-Peage, leaving Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) second for a fifth time in the race and 16th time in all.

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