Yellow jersey Martin crashes and breaks collarbone – Telegraaf.nl

It looks bad for the yellow jersey Tony Martin. The overall leader in the Tour de France has fractured his collarbone during a fall. Martin came Thursday in the final kilometer of the journey to Le Havre overturned after forcing and the rear wheel of a rider from Europcar. He does not want to give up yet

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Pushed by his teammates Martin gets the line. Photo: Reuters

More than four minutes after the stage winner Zdenek Stybar, his teammate, Martin came up with a hand on his collarbone on the finish line.

Since the fall in the last three kilometers occurred, the loss of time not charged him.

Martin came after driving it with a sour face to the stage to accept his new yellow jersey in reception. Immediately afterwards he got into an ambulance. If Martin to retire with a broken collarbone is Sky leader Chris Froome new geletruidager.

That would be a little drama for the German, because it took him three attempts for the first time in his career the yellow to suits. After Utrecht, Zeeland and the Wall of Huy took Martin cobblestones stage Cambrai finally the ‘maillot jaune’.

Nibali and Gesink

Furthermore, Martin took his fall also defending champion Vincenzo Nibali along. The Italian could continue and does not seem to have suffered much damage. Even Warren Barguil and Nairo Quintana were dragged into the trap. Robert Gesink was able to dodge the falling riders just. “I could just past,” Gesink said

View the results of the trip to Le Havre and the new classifications

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