Tour de France champion Alberto Contador lost time on the leaders and suffered a painful knock to his leg when he crashed towards the end of the first stage of Paris-Nice on Monday.
The race favourite crashed three km from the finish in Contres after being dropped from the front following a harsh effort by the Caisse d’Epargne team of last year’s winner Luis Leon Sanchez.
New Zealand’s Greg Henderson won the 201.5-km stage beating Slovenia’s Grega Bole and France’s Jeremy Galland on the line … Details