Primoz Roglic has abandoned the Tour de France ahead of stage nine as one of the pre-race favourites counts the cost of crashes in the opening three days.
A heavily bandaged Roglic finished in a group 35 minutes down on Saturday's stage into Le Grand-Bornand, having already lost time on Friday, and the Slovenian will now try to recover ahead of the Olympics later this month.
"We took the decision altogether with the team, it doesn’t make sense to continue the way it was going at the end," the Jumbo-Visma rider said.
"Now we’ll definitely try to recover and focus on new goals."
