Apparently Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Lotto-Belisol) and Greg van Avermeat (BMC) weren’t the only witnesses of Alberto Contador’s crash on Monday who claimed that the Tinkoff-Saxo took too much risk on the dangerous slippery descent, as Tour de France leader Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) and Belkin rider agreed that the pre-race favorite has only himself to blame for his early exit from the competition.

“The road [surface] was so bad that I couldn’t understand why Alberto deliberately moved up so wildly,” Nibali told the Telegraph.

“I remained focused about three meters of the rider in front of me not to take any unnecessary risk. Alberto rode at least 60, 70 kilometers per hour while overtaking us and less than three seconds later I saw him flying through the air.”

Also the Belkin duo Steven Kruijswijk and Bram Tanking witnessed a crash of the Tinkoff-Saxo leader, and agreed with Nibali’s opinion.

“There was nothing special in this descent really. It has been bumpy indeed, but everyone just followed wheels and rode in line,” Tankink explained NU.nl.

“He was just unfocused at that time. Machado fell because of it too, but he was looking back as he rode through a hole. It wasn’t so smart, obviously.”

“It was just a mistake of his own, we were riding just behind him. The Tour is three-week long and you need to stay focused all the time,” Kruijswijk added.