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Levi Leipheimer (Photosport International)Breaking news: Leipheimer out of the tour with broken wrist
Details are sketchy at the moment but Team Astana have confirmed that Levi Leipheimer, who was involved in a fairly innocuous looking stack in the last 2km of yesterday's stage to Vittel, has suffered a broken wrist and won't be able to start today's stage.
Leipheimer was lying fourth behind Nocentini, Contador and Armstrong and it's a big blow for Team Astana to have one of their major players retire before such an important stage.
The only details we have thus far are from Astana and Leipheimer's Twitter feeds. "Team doc has confirmed that Levi has a transverse fracture of the right scaphoid (in wrist). Will not be able to start.", says the team's feed, and Leipheimer himself simply states, "My wrist is broken. I can't describe how disapointed I am"
Leipheimer's retirement sees Bradley Wiggins move up to fourth place in the Tour ahead of today's testing stage to Colmar.
Levi's broken arm and sad expression (pic from TwitPic)
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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"We were just inside the last three kilometres as somebody crashed ahead of me. I could not avoid him and I went down. My knee was hurting; therefore did I not take the coach but my bike, to go to the hotel. It was only four kilometres, but it was enough to quieten my knee," mused the Aussie.
yeah he's fine, in fact silence lotto are forcing the pace at the mo
Is Cadel ok? he came down at the same time, I think.
I feel sorry for Levi, but Twiggo now 1 rung off the podium!
which is exactly why he was dangerous
I 'd believe a conspiracy theory if it were Contador or Kloden,
but surely Leipheimer was 100% loyal and acceped his place as hyper- domestique?
Nice hotel room though - he's not staying in the local Campanile, unless they've changed a bit
'breaking news', eh? PARP!
hmmm, did he fall or was he pushed?
who in the peleton is influential and powerful enough to make sure a potential rival has a little "accident"?
He's been struck by the curse of my Fantasy league team- first Gesink and now him. Kreuziger and the Schlecks should be very nervous...