Last week Australian superstar Cadel Evans was in the Pyrenees doing reconnaissance rides of the late mountain stages of this year's Tour de France. While motorpacing behind a Davitamon-Lotto team vehicle down the Col d'Aubisque, Evans hit a patch of gravel and was thrown to the ground at 30 mph.
"I've got a sore ankle, hip, knee, head and shoulder," says Cadel on his website www.cadel.com.au. "It was only a silly crash but something that I just couldn't avoid. I landed fairly heavily and have a few cuts on my body, but the other news is that I've sustained a small fracture in my collarbone...It's the same side as I've broken before...There's a little break in one of the holes where the pins were placed during a previous operation. It's a small fracture and of course I'm being honest when I say that I really don't think it will affect anything for my preparation for the Tour de France."
Evans has broken the collarbone at least four times before. He's planning on being back for the Tour de Switzerland, three weeks before the Tour de France.
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