Australia has introduced that an injured Luke Plapp shall be changed by Western Australian rider Ben O’Connor within the males’s street race on the Olympic Games on Saturday August 3.
Plapp, who crashed within the males’s particular person time trial on Saturday and had belly surgical procedure later that night time, was set to race in a help position for Michael Matthews, alongside Simon Clarke however stays in hospital following the laborious fall, necessitating a change of plan.
The rider, who has each a Tour de France and Giro d’Italia stage victory on his palmarès, had been getting ready for the Vuelta a España when he was pulled into the workforce for the 273km occasion, the place Matthews is among the many favourites.
More to come back ….