Michiel Elijzen of Team Rabobank had hoped to end the Eneco Tour in the top ten, but instead he ended the race Sunday, carried off in an ambulance to have his knee stitched back together.
"Belgian roads frequently have a slit in the middle, and I had to jump over it when someone swerved," he said on the team's website, rabosport.nl. "Unfortunately someone else rode into my wheel and I fell hard. I wanted to stand up but had an enormous gap in my knee. You could see the bone and the opening was big enough to put a Euro coin in."
