Rui Costa suffered bruises on his right ankle and buttocks after being hit in one of two collective falls in the first leg of the Tour de France.
According to the Emirates UAE team, the Portuguese was one of four team cyclists caught in the fall – Slovenian Tadej Pogakar, winner in 2020, escaped – along with American Brandon McNulty, Dane Mikkel Bjerg and Swiss Mark Hirshi, much worse. that dislocated his shoulder.
On Sunday, before the start of the second stage, cyclists will be reevaluated.
Spaniard Marc Soler (Movistar) is really out of luck, and after leaving the Giro due to an accident, he also leaves the Tour with three broken arms. The cyclist was caught by the first fall caused by the spectator with the poster, but he still finished, but half an hour more than the winner, Frenchman Julian Alafilip (Deceuninck-QuickStep).
“The examinations he went through after filming showed that he had fractures of the radius and ulna of his left arm,” Movistar said in a note.
Cyril Lemoine (BB Hotels) with four broken ribs and pneumothorax was hospitalized in Brest tonight.
