The 3rd stage of this Tour de France was placed under the sign of chaos! Indeed, while the majority of the stage was run on a very quiet pace, three major falls came to shake the peloton: that of Jasper Philipsen During the intermediate sprint, one 3 kilometers from the finish and the last in the last 300 meters. Cyclism’Actu So offers you to make the medical point, even if it is likely to change until the start of the 4th stage this Tuesday.
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Philipsen, Meeus, Jeannière … The results
Main victim of this stage, Jasper Philipsen is the only one to have abandoned the race. Directly after his fall, the Belgian was taken to the hospital. After exams, his training Alpecin-DECEUNINCK said he was suffering from a “Displaced fracture of the right collarbone, an operation will be definitively necessary. At least a broken coast, possibly two. It will be transferred as soon as possible to the HERENTALS hospital, where it will undergo surgery.”
First to fall during the fall which intervened 3 kilometers from the finish, Jordi Meeus (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) remained for a moment on the ground, following a shock received at the head, but was able to leave. Laurence Pithie (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), Laurenz Rex (Intermarché-Wanty), Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers), Clément Berthet (Decathlon AG2R) and others also fell during this collective fall, but would only suffer from start -ups.
The fall during the final sprint was also very violent. If The country (Groupama-FDJ), Bryan Coquard (COFIDIS) Davide Ballerini (XDs asa), Arnaud de Lie (Lotto) quickly left and should start the 4th stage on Tuesday, the case ofEmilien Jeannière was the most worrying. “Fallen heavily in the last 300 meters, Émilien was quickly taken care of by the doctors, he is on the foot and will return to the hotel in the evening after additional examinations. He suffers from a facial trauma without a sign of gravity, multiple bruises, especially in the shoulder and sutured wounds. A re -evaluation will be made tomorrow morning by the medical staff for the competition”said his team Total energy.
