Sacha Modolo crashes out of Tour of Qatar, Milan-San Remo in doubt

Sacha Modolo wins, Tour de San Luis 2013, stage two

Sacha Modolo's dream of winning Milan-San Remo fell with a hard thump today in Doha, Qatar. Doctors confirmed he fractured his scaphoid in his right wrist due to a crash in Tour of Qatar stage one.

"We came to these races [Qatar and Oman] specifically so that he could arrive on target for San Remo and to win," Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox co-manager, Bruno Reverberi told Cycling Weekly. "It's a shame what has happened."

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