Daniel Oss finished Tour stage with fractured vertabrae after hitting two fans | Video | Sticky Bottle

*Daniel Oss of TotalEnergies on the pavé yesterday before his crash on sector 3 during stage 5 at Tour de France (Photo: Charly Lopez)*

Daniel Oss - main bodyguard for Peter Sagan - is out of the Tour de France after struggling to the finish of yesterday's stage 5 only to discover he'd fractured a vertabrae in a crash with spectators.

Oss (TotalEnergies) was one of at least three riders who crashed in the incident on sector 3 yesterday, with about 30km remaining on the 157km stage from Lille to Wallers-Arenberg.

His team confirmed on Thursday morning, before stage 6, that he was now out of the race and he also faces a period on the sidelines as the injury to the bone, close to the spine, recovers.

"Additional examinations revealed a fracture of a vertebrae requiring immobilisation for a few weeks. Daniel Oss is therefore forced to leave the Tour de France," TotalEnergies said.

Oss was riding right to the roadside when he began to lose control after brushing one fan - whose arm appeared to catch Oss's - before ploughing into another who was leaning out into the road with his camera phone out.

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Remarkably, after such a heavy and high-speed impact he got back on his bike and managed to finish the stage; placing 154th at 13:07.

Both Michael Gogl (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Danny van Poppel (Bora-hansgrohe) were behind Oss and they came down hard in the crash. While Van Poppel does not appear to have broken any bones, and so can continue in the race, Gogl had no such luck.

His team confirmed after the stage he had broke his collarbone and pelvis/iliac bone and was set to undergo surgery in the hospital of Herentals, Belgium.