Tour de France: Successful surgery for Frank

Mathias Frank (IAM Cycling) crashed out of the Tour with a fractured femur

Mathias Frank (IAM Cycling) crashed out of the Tour with a fractured femur (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)

Mathias Frank (IAM Cyling) was one of two riders to fracture their femur on stage 7 of the Tour de France as he was caught up in a final kilometre crash in Nancy. Frank finished the stage but flew to Geneva having undergone an x-ray at the Tour de France mobile medical clinic which revealed the fracture in his left leg, ending his first participation in the Tour.