Bourg-Saint-Maurice (France) (AFP) – Colombian Rigoberto Uran, last year’s runner-up and leader of the EF-Drapac team, pulled out of the Tour de France ahead of Thursday’s 12th stage after succumbing to injuries sustained in a ninth stage fall, his team said.
“Today I have to share some bad news. I didn’t recover after the crash. Yesterday in the first real climb, all day, there was pain in my body,” Uran said in a post to Twitter.
Uran injured his left leg and arm in Sunday’s tumble between Arras and Roubaix and his team said that had made his withdrawal inevitable.
After a rest day on Monday he suffered in the first of three mountain stages in the Alps and trundled in almost half an hour behind stage Geraint Thomas of Sky.
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