And he has almost crashed on a tricky descent.
As if to fuel the prestage drama, Froome had almost crashed into Contador during a furious downhill chase on Stage 16, and later chided him, saying he should ride more safely.
The most important thing is not to make a mistake, but it is easy to make a mistake here," Loeb cautioned, mindful that he had almost crashed on the first corner while adapting to his Citroën's new suspension.
The Air France plane that disappeared between Brazil and France with 228 people on board today has almost certainly crashed, airline and government officials said.
The last desperate hopes of finding survivors in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane ended on Monday with the announcement that flight MH370 had almost certainly crashed into the southern Indian Ocean with all lives lost.
Banks, which tend to be badly burnt once every decade or so in a property-market crash, have almost stopped lending for construction.
The financial services industry – you remember: the people who just crashed the global economy – have almost always been part of the Tory tent.
More people have almost certainly died in car crashes since 9/11, as a result of being put off flying by the attacks of that day, than died on 9/11 itself.
Had you purchased $10,000 worth of a simple index fund after the crash and reinvested the dividends, you would have almost $50,000 today.
It is watchable, though, of course, easily mocked: I discovered for myself recently that the joke about adding "-round" to the hero's surname is so prevalent online that it has almost caused Twitter to crash.
