Injured Martin to make decision on continuing before Stage 2
X-rays on w♉rist for German while Pineau also in doubt




168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tony Martin's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France has gone from bad to worse. After a puncture knocked him out of competition in the prologue, a crash near the beginning of the first stage sent him to hospital for x-rays. His 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Omega Pharma-QuickStep teammate Jerome Pineau also went🧔 to hospital after being hit by a spectator.
"We take a decision until Monday or even Tony will come at the start of the second stage," said A🐷lessandro Tegner media officer for Omega Pharma-QuickStep. "We wait to see what the night brings, and♊ how Martin recovers from his injuries."
After only 11 kilometres, Martin and t⭕hree others crashed, but all continued. The world time trial champion paid numerous visits to the race doctor's car, getting pain pills. His official diagnosis from the race doctor was a bruised leg and an injured wrist. He also had visibly lost skin on his left elbow.
Martin has made clear that his main priority this🔴 summer is the London Olympics, and not the Tour. A serious injury now would put an end to his dreams for 2012.
"My hand hurts and riding along I felt every pothole," he told Radsport-News.com after the stage. He didn't think of abandoning, though. "If necessary I would have come to the finish as the last rider." It wasn't necessary – in fact he finished in the same time as winner Peter Sagan, which gave team manager Patrick Lefevere reason to hope🌜. "It can't really be that bad. He rode strongly in the finale."
It might really be that ba💃d, though. Team doctor Helge Riepenhof examined hiℱm in the team bus and said, "I am usually optimistic, but it doesn't look good."
"I hope that it is only a bad bruise and not a break," Martin said. "Then I will try to fight my way through until thဣe time trial on the coming Monday."
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He was joined at hospital by Pineau. The team reported that he hit by a spectator on his right shoulder 25km from the fin🍌iౠsh and was unable to move his arm after the race.