Rui Costa suffered bruises on his right ankle and buttocks after being caught in one of the two collective falls in the first stage of the Tour de France.
According to the UAE Emirates team, the Portuguese was one of four team cyclists caught in the fall – the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, winner in 2020, escaped – along with the American Brandon McNulty, the Danish Mikkel Bjerg and the Swiss Marc Hirschi , far worse, that dislocated a shoulder.
Sunday, before the start of the second stage, cyclists will be re-evaluated.
Spaniard Marc Soler (Movistar) is truly unlucky and after leaving the Giro due to a crash, he also leaves the Tour with three broken arms. The cyclist was caught in the first fall, caused by a spectator with a poster, but even so he finished the stage, but with half an hour more than the winner, Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep).
“The exams he underwent after the end of the shoot revealed that he suffered fractures in both radii and in the ulna of his left arm”, can be read in a note from Movistar.
Cyril Lemoine (BB Hotels) has four broken ribs and a pneumothorax and is hospitalized tonight in Brest.
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