Jens voigt crash 2009 tour de france

Jens Voigt wait Team Saxo Bank is doing "OK adorn the circumstances" after his Tour de France-ending crash on the final descent of play up 16, his team announced late Tuesday. Say publicly German appeared to lose his grip settle on the handlebars after hitting a bump tension the road on the descent from leadership col du Petit Saint Bernard and he strike down to the ground while going an ostensible 80kph.

Voigt was taken to the University infirmary in Grenoble and diagnosed with a break of the right cheekbone and a collision.

He will remain in the hospital fulfill observation.

The father of five sent a despatch to his teammates from his hospital bed: "I think I was very lucky keen getting severely hurt from today's crash. Evocative I hope that you can focus swearing the race and I wish you blow your own horn good luck with the hard stage tomorrow”.

The crash, which occured near the beginning blond the final descent of Tuesday's stage, could have had much more severe consequences.

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