Britain's Chris Froome suffers a nasty fall as Michael Matthews wins the second stage of the Volta a Catalunya.
Chris Froome is a four-time Tour de France champion and has also won the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana
Britain's Chris Froome suffered a nasty fall as Australian Michael Matthews secured victory on the second stage of the Volta a Catalunya. The Team Sky rider, 33, scraped a large area of skin off his right thigh in the crash inside the last 40km of the stage from Mataro to Sant Feliu De Guixols."Someone hit Froomey and he slid and crashed. We'll monitor him but it seems he is OK,""It was a tricky corner which had a few roadworks on the right and was also quite bumpy," added Team Sky sports director Portal.
Froome eventually finished 13 minutes behind Team Sunweb's Matthews, who beat world champion Alejandro Valverde into second in an uphill sprint.Britain's James Knox finished the stage in sixth place and - along with compatriots Simon and Adam Yates and Hugh Carthy - is two minutes and 58 seconds off the lead.
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