Crashes and injuries were part of professional road cycling.
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But seeing such a large-scale crash, especially with this race so close to the Tour de France, was something nobody wanted.
This was especially true for Bora Team. Primož Roglič had already suffered a crash at this year's Tour of the Basque Country.
He had finally returned at the Critérium du Dauphiné to warm up for the Tour de France, the most important race of the year, only to get caught up in another crash.
After the race, the team's medical staff immediately gave Roglič, along with Huang Chong, who had also been caught in the crash, thorough medical examinations.
Unfortunately, Roglič, who had not felt much at the scene, began experiencing shoulder pain afterward. The team doctors confirmed that he had suffered a fairly serious shoulder injury.
The injury was not severe enough to force him to abandon the race, but it would definitely affect his riding condition.
Fortunately, Huang Chong had not suffered any effects from the crash. He had only damaged his road bike.
However, when Stage 6 began, the effects of yesterday's crash were still ongoing before the race had even truly started. Ten riders would abandon that day, including UAE Team Emirates' key leader, Ayuso.
The other nine came from Trek team's Alex Kirsch.
Lotto team's Andreas Kron.
Uno-X team's Odd Christian Eiking.
Intermarché–Wanty's Kobe Goossens.
Bahrain Victorious team's Kamil Gradek, Rainer Kepplinger, and Jasha Sütterlin.
EF Education's Lukas Nerurkar, as well as Harry Sweeny.
Apart from Bahrain Victorious, where one of the two riders had tested positive for COVID and the other had a respiratory infection, forcing them to withdraw, nearly all the other riders who abandoned early had been affected by yesterday's crash.
With eighteen riders withdrawing over two days, only