Ruled out of the Tour de France due to tendonitis, Ireland’s Daniel Martin fortunately avoided a premature end to another Grand Tour campaign yesterday. Martin (Garmin-Slipstream) made his Grand Tour debut yesterday, but crashed shortly after the start of the 4.8-kilometre time trial on the motor circuit in Assen, Netherlands. “I felt really good and just got unlucky with the weather,” he told Cyclingnews . “My front wheel slid out at the third corner. I tried to pick it up on my …

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Martin okay after crash in Vuelta a España prologue