Fabian Cancellara after a crash in the 2015 E3 Harelbeke
Classics favourite Fabian Cancellara will miss the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix after suffering two fractures to the lower part of his back, in a crash at Friday's E3 Harelbeke.
Cancellara came unseated in a huge crash within the first hour of E3 and abandoned the race shortly afterwards.
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