12 abandons, 2 broken bones, 1 dented helmet - Bessèges crash injury list
Peloto𓃲n dusꦏt themselves off for stage 3 after mass crash neutralised stage

The dramatic crash that led to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:cancellation of stage 2 of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Etoile de Bessèges has not produced the sort of injury list many perhaps expected, but there were still a couple of brokeജn bones and several riders out of the race.
A huge number of riders piled up after a touch of wheels on the pinch point of a narrow stone bridge just over 20km from the finish of Friday's stage, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valentin Ferron (TotalEnergies) remarkably 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:left h🌠anging from the side of the bridge.
With no finishers recorded at the end🎀 of the neutralised stage, there were no official abandons until the race resumed in Bessèges on Friday morning. There, at le꧑ast 12 riders did not stage stage 3.
They were: Lars van den Berg (Groupama-FDJ), Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost), Otto Vergaerde (Trek-Segafredo), Morné Van Niekerk (St Michel-Mavic-Auber), Martí Márquez (Kern Pharma), Nathan Vandepitte (Bingoal-WB), Aaron Verwilst (Flanders-Baloise), Jacob Eriksson (Tudor Pro Cycling), the Lotto-Dstny duo of Sebastien Grignard and Cedric Beullens (✤Lotto-Dstny), and the GoSport-Roubaix-Métropole duo of Thomas Boudat and Valentin Tabellion.
Van den Berg sustained a non-displac♔ed fracture of the radial head of his right elbow, while Healy suffered a fractured metacarpal bone in his hand.
Grignard escaped without fractures but was badly banged up, requiring stitches in his face, elbow and knee. multiple ♔abrasions and bruises. He also received stitches in the face, elbow and knee. His teammate Buell🉐ens, who also crashed on stage 1 and previously at the GP La Marseillaise, is out with a knee wound.
Van Niekerk also ended up without any broken bones but wil🌌l require "a few days of rest in order to recover from t💮he shock". Márquez, meanwhile, has left the race without a full indication of his injuries from Kern Pharma.
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As for the two GoSport-Roubaix abandons, Boudat has pain in the ribs and right knee, whil🌳e Tabellion suffered a dislocated shoulder.
On top of the riders leaving the race, many more are soldiering on with their wounds. Dylan Teuns (Israel-Premier Tech) had his face heavily bandaged after also needing stitches. His teammate Guillaume Boivin sustained contusions on hiཧs hand and back.
Simon Carr (EF Education-EasyPost), Lauren Pichon (Arkéa-Samsic), Alexandre Delettre (Cofidis) and the TotalEnergies duo of Mathieu Burgaudeau and Anthony Turgis were among the riders to suffer ಌminor scrapes, while Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) also came down without any ill effects.
Overall contender Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R CItroën) was bashed up but sustained his injuries in an ear🔯lier crash. He decided to start "after a good night's sleep".
There was another indicꦛation of the dangers of such crashes as Rudy Barbier 🎉(St Michel-Mavic-Auber), who suffered contusions on his shoulder and hip, posted a photo of his heavily dented helmet on social media.
As for Ferron, he recounted his remarkable experience to Cyclingnews, with his team summing it up: "More of a fright t🦩han any harm."
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