Luke Plapp (Jayco-AlUla) crashed on stage 3 of the boys’s race on the Tour Down Below, hitting the deck together with at the very least 4 different riders at about ten kilometres to go on the quick downhill run towards the road in Campbelltown.
He managed to climb again on his bike, together with his package ripped to shreds alongside the left hand facet, revealing in depth patches of grazed and bloody pores and skin on his shoulder pores and skin and again. His proper fingers have been additionally lined in blood.
His Jayco-AlUla group rapidly put out an replace on social media saying: “Not the perfect day with a really unlucky quick crash for Australian champion Plapp within the ultimate 10km. He managed to complete the stage however with plenty of pores and skin misplaced.”
“Bike owner are TOUGH”
The group later instructed media in a press release that “Plapp has been seen by the onsite medical group on the end line. Many superficial wounds, swollen elbow and ankle. He will not journey to hospital. We are going to monitor him in a single day and make an evaluation tomorrow earlier than the stage.”
Even when Plapp can be a part of his teammates firstly tomorrow’s stage he’s now nicely out of the GC race, coming over the road 9:53 behind race winner Sam Welsford (Bora-Hansgrohe).
The rider was one of many in-form Jayco-AlUla groups key rider, with final 12 months’s runner-up Simon Yates main the group, whereas Plapp and Chris Harper supplied choices alongside him.
Cameron Scott (Bahrain Victorious), one of many key leadout riders for Phil Bauhaus, was additionally concerned within the crash and crossed the road greater than 11 minutes down, as have been quite a lot of Astana Qazaqstan riders.
The group stated on social media that: “All our riders completed the stage. We can be ready for the medical replace on [Christian] Scaroni, [Samuele] Battistella and [Michele] Gazzoli.”
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