{"id":96708,"date":"2021-07-07T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=96708"},"modified":"2021-07-07T22:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T22:58:28","slug":"bloodied-tdf-rider-stretchered-off-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=96708","title":{"rendered":"Bloodied TDF rider stretchered off after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German rider Tony Martin was stretchered off the Tour de France course after crashing out of the race on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The former time-trial world champion from the Jumbo-Visma team fell early in Stage 11, which features a double ascent of the iconic Mont Ventoux in southeastern France.<\/p>\n<p>Martin tumbled into a ditch littered with beer bottles along the road and got to his feet with his right leg and arm very bloodied.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChassePatate3\/status\/1412836540888326147\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChassePatate3\/status\/1412836540888326147<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He looked groggy as he was tended to by the race medical team before he was stretchered off into an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Martin had crashed in the Tour&#x27;s opening stage after a careless spectator brandished a large cardboard sign while leaning into his path.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"0e5074b3-91d4-40a6-b039-2f5ca7e34865\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0e5074b3-91d4-40a6-b039-2f5ca7e34865\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1849\" data-height=\"1152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was the sixth time in 13 appearances that Martin abandoned the race, according to Tour de France organisers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JumboVismaRoad\/status\/1412729641605996546\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/JumboVismaRoad\/status\/1412729641605996546<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jumbo-Visma team leader Primoz Roglic, who was runner-up last year, retired from the race last week. Roglic had crashed badly during the third stage in the western Brittany region and did not recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>German rider Tony Martin was stretchered off the Tour de France course after crashing out of the race on Wednesday. The former time-trial world champion <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=96708\" title=\"Bloodied TDF rider stretchered off after crash\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96710,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96708\/revisions\/96710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}