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One of the more spectacular falls taken by a member of Sunday's Paris-Roubaix peloton was sustained by FDJ's co-leader 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yoann Offredo, who while rolling along with his head turned back to locate his team car crashed into a warning sign at the leading edge of a median approximately half-way through the race. Offredo would turn forward just as he struck the sign and was launch🤪ed over his bars onto the tarmac.

"It was💧 at the back of the peloton," said FDJ directeur sportif Marc Madiot. "He had just asked for a bike change and before I could arrive he did not see that the peloton separated on each side of an island and he ran into a directional sign at full speed. He received injuries to🍒 his chin, knees and ribs. He stopped like that..."

"A second of inattention...Broken fingers/scratched chin/but the morale is especially damaged." said Offredo afterwards via Twitter.

The team has not yet announced how long Offredo will be sidelined from competi🔴tion from his injuries.

FDJ's other Paris-Roubaix hope, Matthieu Ladagnous, crashed with 60km remaining while in the froဣnt pack when he could not avoid a rider falling in front of him. Ladagnous hurt his left leg and was forced to abandon.

"We never could have imagined such misfortune," said Madiot, whose best🦩-placed rider would be Johan Le Bon iꦐn 26th place, 3:17 down on winner Fabian Cancellara.

Le Bon was pragmatic about his and his team's performance at Paris-Roubaix. "I finished, and it will serve me♛ in the future, but the situation is very sad for us because he had high hopes."