U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong crashed Monday while racing in Spain, breaking his right collar bone and setting back his return to professional racing.
Armstrong, 37, and a seven-time Tour De France champion, is staging a racing comeback after retiring in 2005. He was injured in a multi-bike crash in the first stage on the five-day Vuelta Castilla y Leon race, in Baltanas, Spain.
Armstrong, a cancer survivor, was taken to a hospital in Palencia.
“Armstrong suffered a fracture of the third medio of the right clavicle,” the race organization told VeloNews, a bicycling magaizne.
The statement also said Armstrong will leave the hospital Monday evening.
“It’s unfortunate, but that’s bike racing,” Armstrong spokesman Mark Higgins told the magazine.
Armstrong, of Austin, Texas, is scheduled to race the Giro dItalia, May 9 to 31.
Such an injury will take four to six weeks to heal before a cyclist can return to professional racing.
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