Tour de France cyclist crashes into car windscreen and left needing 20 stitches

Einer Rubio crashed head-first into the back of the UAE’s team car

Tour de France cyclist Einer Rubio required 20 stitches after he crashed head-first into the back of another team’s car.

Rubio, who rides for Team Movistar, was riding up Alpe d’Huez during Stage 19 on Friday when the UAE Team Emirates-XRG car suddenly braked in front of him.

The Colombian cyclist had no time to react and he smashed into the back of the car, which had stopped after a spectator had jumped out into the road.

Rubio was left bloodied and attended to by medical staff while the UAE team car drove off.

The 28-year-old suffered multiple face injuries and was taken to hospital before he was forced to withdraw from the Tour de France.

Joxean Fernandez Matxin, the team manger of UAE Team Emirates-XRG who w...