The early days of the Tour are notorious for crashes, but yesterday during stage 3 things got bad, the stage had to be neutralized while medics took care of riders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSULhAyY9QQ

According to Cycling Weekly:

“The double crashes on a fast descent in the Ardennes at the Tour de France on stage 3 left many of the riders battered, scraped and bruised on the worst possible day – right before they hit the cobbles of Northern France. So numerous were the injured that race organisers were forced to halt the stage to let the medics do their jobs.”

Cycling Weekly Photo Gallery of the Crash

Cancellara who was in yellow went down and has abandoned with a fractured vertebrae. Many other riders were injured. Those who survived have to face the cobbles today.

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