Tour not in danger for Thomas: no fracture found

Geraint Thomas can simply work for the Tour de France. The defending champion crashed today during the Tour de Suisse and had to give up, but the investigations revealed no break. "It's frustrating and a slight mishap in my preparation, but there's still a lot of time to start in Brussels," says Thomas.

Damage
The fear of the Ineos team would have been great, a week later. heavy accident of Chris Froome, whose season is already over due to several fractures. Thomas stayed a long time on the ground after his fall. After several exams at the hospital, the driver from Wales only seems to have scrapes in his shoulder and a nick over his right eye.

"A runner from Astana hit something that went over and I could not go anywhere. I fell on my shoulder and my face, there was also a lot of blood. You must always pay attention to head injuries. Even though I wanted to continue, the doctors made the right choice by not allowing me to continue driving, "says Thomas. "We're going to see it again now and I'm sure my coach Tim Kerrison has a plan to make sure I'll be there on July 6th." kept under surveillance for days. "Knowing Geraint, he will soon be back on the bike, but we must make sure that he will not be able to develop symptoms in a few days. We are optimistic that he will recover completely, "said Macleod.