For the third time, Robert Gesink (LottoNL-Jumbo) has crashed out of the Tour de France, only one day after finishing second on stage 8. He finished up watching the end of the Queen Stage on Sunday from a hospital bed in Oyonnax.
Less than five kilometres after the start, Gesink crashed along with Manuel Mori (UAE Team Emirates) and Angelo Tulik (Direct Energie). Mori lay screaming on the pavement with a broken shoulder and collapsed lung.
"Just in front of me, a man fell and I stumbled across him," Gesink told Dutch broadcaster NOS. "It was really not that hard a fall. I fell with my buttocks on the asphalt and felt it in my back." The 31-year-old was taken by ambulance to hospital, where he was diagnosed with a fractured L1 vertebra.
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"It goes without saying, that I'm lying on my back and I'll have to do that in the next few days. I have to keep quiet. I have a stable break, so surgery is not necessary."
Gesink will be fitted with a corset. "That's to prevent me from making movements that I cannot make. And with that I'm mobile. But this will take a while. I almost never fall, but if I fall, it always gets hit."
There was no prediction as to when he would be back on his bike or racing again.
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