Giro d'Italia rider Alessio Martinelli slides into ravine on rainsoaked stage 16 descent
VF Group-Bardiani rider was part of breakaway, team reports he did not suffer fractures just a cut to🅘 his chin and thigh

Giro d'Italia rider 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alessio Martinelli crashed during stage 16 of the race and slid꧅ off t🤡he road into a ravine mid way through stage 16 to San Valentino.
His team, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè, later reported that he was conscious and had been taken to hospital.
Part of an early front break of 24 also containing teammaꦏte Luca Covili, Martinelli was tackling a rain-soaked downhill seg🦩ment off the category 2 Carbonare climb, with 110 kilometres to go.
No other 🅘rider was involved in the fall on a sweeping lefthand bend in the town of Valsorda. Martinelli lost control of his bike in the rain and then slid across the road. He narr꧂owly avoided some barriers but fell in the ravine, some trees slowing his fall.
Race broadcasters reported that Martinelli had slid 10-1🍃5 metres down the road and that both ambulance and mountain rescue were with him.
His team later rep𓃲orted that he had been taken to hospital, but was conscious. Afterꦯ stage 16 the Italian team said medical checks had excluded fractures and that Martinelli had only suffered a cut to his chin and right thigh.
🚨Aggiornamenti su Alessio Martinelli: Fortunatamente, gli accertamenti medici hanno escluso fratture, soltanto un trauma al mento e al gluteo destro. pic.twitter.com/0S2ewwxc6X
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Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The Independent, The Guardian, ProCycling, The Express and Reuters.
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