Blel Kadri who crashed in the first stage of the Ruta del Sol last Wednesday has undergone complementary medical examinations at the Clinique de l’Union in Toulouse. He suffers from 4 broken ribs with an hemotorax. He will be hospitalized for 4 or 5 days.
 

Kadri will be unavailable for several weeks.

"I have had a lot of crashes during my career," he says. "So I am philosophical. It was a big crash and I found myself under a pile of riders. I knew it was going to hurt. Now I have to be patient. The season is long