Amaury Capiot sustained fractures to his sacrum and pelvis in a crash that occurred on stage 13 dash end in Pau on the Tour de France final Saturday.
According to a medical replace from his staff, Arkéa-B&B Hotels, the French rider underwent x-rays to substantiate his accidents, however they haven’t but revealed a timeline for his restoration.
“Following his crash in the course of the Pau stage of the Tour de France, Amaury Capiot underwent additional checks, which revealed a non-displaced sacral fracture, in addition to a left peri-symphyseal fracture. His length of unavailability can be communicated later,” Arkéa-B&B Hotels launched a medical replace on Thursday, 5 days after the crash.
Capiot was concerned in a crash that occurred when Lotto Dstny’s and Arkéa-B&B Hotels’ respective lead-out riders collided in opposition to the obstacles on the left aspect of the highway with roughly 700 metres to go on the run-in to the end line in Pau.
Arnaud De Lie’s Lotto-Dstny lead-out rider, Maxim Van Gils, was handed a 1500CHF nice and misplaced 60 UCI factors for improper conduct: “hit with the shoulder that endangered different riders.”
Video footage of the crash exhibits Van Gils launching his remaining lead-out for De Lie on the left-hand aspect of the highway, carrying a excessive velocity near the obstacles with 750 metres to go. At the identical second, Capiot, having accomplished his lead-out for Arnaud Démare, seemed again over his shoulder and eased to the left towards the obstacles simply as Van Gils got here up from behind and squeezed by the slender hole, and the pair bumped shoulders.
Several riders, together with Capiot, Cees Bol (Astana Qazaqstan), Mattéo Vercher (TotalEnergies), and Axel Zingle (Cofidis) went down within the crash simply because the peloton wound up for the ultimate dash.
Capiot began stage 14 however was rapidly dropped from the again of the peloton after which deserted the Tour de France attributable to his accidents.
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