TOMBLAINE: Garmin team leader Ryder Hesjedal has pulled out of the Tour de France after suffering several injuries in the crash-marred sixth stage, team chief Jonathan Vaughters said yesterday. “Ryder is not going to start,” said Vaughters. Canada’s recent Giro d’Italia champion, considered a yellow jersey outsider, was one of several Garmin men to suffer in the 60 kmph pile-up 26 kilometres from the finish line of Friday’s 205 km stage from Epernay to Metz. Hesjedal, who suffered a hematoma on his hip joint according to Vaughters, was preparing to travel with teammate Tom Danielson to the airport in Paris. Danielson was also forced out of the race, along with five riders from other teams.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 8th, 2012.
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