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Injury forces Simon Gerrans out of Australia Olympic team

By Reuters

Sunday 17 July 2016 08:52, UK

Simon Gerrans from Orica Greenedge celebrates his stage 3 victory of the Santos Tour Down Under
Image: Simon Gerrans has had surgery on his broken collarbone

Australia's Olympic road cycling medal hopes have suffered a blow with world silver medallist Simon Gerrans forced out of the Rio Games after breaking a collarbone at the Tour de France.

The 36-year-old Orica-BikeExchange rider underwent surgery in Barcelona over the weekend after being ruled out of the Tour following a crash.

He was set to be replaced by another rider in the Australian team at Rio, a Cycling Australia spokeswoman confirmed on Sunday.

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Two-time Olympian Gerrans had been selected in the road race at Rio with BMC Racing rider Rohan Dennis and Richie Porte, a twice world champion in the team time trial.   

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