Lidl-Trek’s Mattias Skjelmose has been taken to hospital after a hard crash on stage seven of Paris-Nice.
The Dane was third in the overall standings going into Saturday's Queen stage to Auron, but he fell heavily in the rain after colliding with a traffic island at around 50 kilometres from the stage finish.
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