Arnaud Demare's chances of riding Paris-Roubaix have been described as 50-50 by FDJ team manager Marc Madiot after the Frenchman crashed out of the Tour of Flanders, suffering road rash and bruising to numerous parts of his body.
Demare won Milan-San Remo but will now have to lick his wounds and train in pain this week if he hopes to ride Paris-Roubaix next Sunday. He was one of several riders who crashed, including Greg Van Avermaet (BMC), who fractured his collarbone.
The FDJ team was careful to ride near the front of the peloton, protecting Demare, but he crashed hard and brought down several other riders on a straight section of road, with 143km to race, before the start of the major climbs in the race. Road rash was visible on his back, shoulders and legs. Demare managed to get back on his bike but quit the race after a couple of kilometres. He was taken to hospital by a race ambulance for treatment but later headed home with his parents.
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“He’s got road rash all over him,” Demare’s father told French newspaper l’Equipe.
It seems the crash was Demare’s fault.
“He was holding the bars with one hand as he was about to get his bidon but he didn’t see a hole in the road, his wheel turned and he went down,” FDJ directeur sportif Martial Gayant told l’Equipe.
— Arnaud Demare (@ArnaudDemare) April 4, 2016
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