Misjudging the difficulty of a corner on a descent is something that fills many an amateur cyclist with fear, but imagine what it is like when travelling at the speed of a professional cyclist.
Dimension Data's Nathan Haas had to abandon Paris-Nice after such an incident on stage four, taking a corner a little too fast as he rode ahead of the peloton and ending up in a ditch.
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