A late crash ended Mark Cavendish’s Tour de France on the opening day because the a hundred and first occasion acquired underway in Yorkshire on today in 2014
The Manxman had hoped to put on the yellow jersey in his mom’s residence city of Harrogate after the race left Leeds on a 190.5-kilometre stage which took within the Dales.
Nevertheless, Cavendish collided with Orica GreenEdge rival Simon Gerrans somewhat over 200 metres from the road within the Yorkshire spa city and separated the acromioclavicular (AC) joint between his proper shoulder and collarbone after crashing to the ground.
Cavendish sustained a shoulder harm after a crash near the end line (Martin Rickett/PA)
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He rode gingerly again to his Omega Pharma-QuickStep workforce bus holding his facet earlier than being taken away in an ambulance together with his spouse Peta Todd and youngsters following in a workforce automobile. An MRI scan that night time ended his Tour.
“I’m completely devastated,” mentioned Cavendish forward of the following day’s stage from York to Sheffield.
“We knew right away. I usually bounce again from crashes fairly effectively; I assessed my physique yesterday and for the primary time in my profession I knew one thing was unsuitable.
“I held a little bit of optimism that it was perhaps simply swelling and would go down in a single day, but it surely’s truly worse and it’s not potential to begin from a medical viewpoint.”
It was the primary time since 2008 – when he left prematurely to arrange for the Beijing Olympics – that Cavendish had not accomplished the Tour.
