Richard Carapaz has withdrawn from the Tour de Pologne due to the injuries he sustained in his crash on yesterday's stage 4.
The team said it had decided he would not start today and he was due to travel to recon some of the stages of his Giro defence later in the season and also due to ride Il Lombardia next week.
Team Ineos sport director Matteo Tosatto said "looking at the bigger picture it is best for him to rest".
The team's doctor, Alistair Park, offered an update on Carapaz's condition and that of Ian Stannard, who came down in the same crash yesterday and abandoned the stage.
“Richard has some skin loss from the crash as well as muscular soreness, mostly around the right side of his abdomen and his right hip,” he said of Carapaz.
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“It looks like he caught some handlebars in the crash
which has caused some contusion and bruising. We’ll continue to monitor him
throughout his recovery.
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“Ian dislocated his right shoulder in the crash. It was
not easy to reduce initially so we had to take him to the hospital for extra
assessment, x-rays and a CT-scan.
He will now travel back to the UK where he’ll be assessed
by a shoulder specialist. We’ll get a second x-ray after the reduction to see
if everything looks okay. That second scan will tell us more about the nature
of the injury.”
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