The images left little room for doubt. Italian Daniel Oss threw in the towel on Wednesday evening, victim of a fractured cervical vertebra following a violent fall during the fifth stage of the Tour de France. The TotalEnergies rider had hit a careless spectator in sector 3 and at the same time caused the retirement of the Austrian Michael Gogl. He will have to be immobilized for long weeks according to the message published by his team on Twitter.
” Additional examinations revealed a fracture of a cervical vertebra requiring immobilization for a few weeks. Daniel Oss is therefore forced to leave the Tour de France “, Indicates the French formation.