Barloworld's Soler in TDF doubt
2008-07-06 11:21
Plumelec - Colombia's Tour de France King of the Mountains defending champion, Mauricio Soler, is a doubt for the rest of the race after a crash on the first stage on Saturday.
Soler, who rides for the Barloworld team, picked up a suspected fractured scaphoid (bone) in his left wrist and a sprained right wrist in a crash on the chaotic 197.5km first stage from Brest to Plumelec.
He plans to make a decision on whether to continue before the start of Sunday's second stage.
"The scaphoid is a small round bone in the wrist and you can?t always see if it's fractured or not after a wrist injury," the race's medical officer Gerard Porte said.
Porte will examine the injured rider on Sunday morning and consult with Barloworld's doctor before giving Soler the green light to continue.
- AFP