Injury ends Astana’s Levi Leipheimer’s Tour de France 2009

Astana rider Levi Leipheimer has been forced to pull out of the Tour de France with a fractured wrist.

The American, who was fourth overall, crashed at the end of Thursday’s stage.

A statement on the team website said he would not be able to start Friday’s stage because of a “transverse fracture of the right scaphoid (in wrist).”

Leipheimer is a team-mate and close friend of Lance Armstrong, who has admitted to “tensions” with Astana colleague and rival Alberto Contador.

source:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8155549.stm

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