Daniel Oss will not start on Thursday in the sixth stage of the Tour de France. The 35-year-old rider of Team TotalEnergies suffered a fracture in his cervical vertebra in a collision with a spectator on Wednesday.
Oss fell on the third cobblestone section in the cobblestone stage between Lille and Arenberg when he hit a spectator who was filming. “The investigations indicate a fracture in the cervical vertebra, as a result of which he is not allowed to cycle for several weeks,” TotalEnergies reports about the Italian rider.
Oss was working on his tenth Tour and it is the first time that he will not make it to the finish line in Paris. Incidentally, he was not the only victim of the fall by the spectator.
Austrian Michael Gogl also crashed and unlike Oss he was unable to finish the stage. The Alpecin-Deceuninck rider was immediately taken to hospital in Valenciennes.
Because Oss will no longer be leaving on Thursday, the total number of dropouts this Tour is three. The sixth stage has already started and covers 219 kilometers from Binche to Longwy.