Luke Plapp will not start stage 4 of the Tour Down Under after a crash on stage 3 left the Jayco-AlUla rider with a shredded national champions jersey and 'lots of skin lost'.
Plapp had got back on his bike and pedalled over the line in Campbelltown after coming down about 10km from the finish, with the 23-year-old at the bottom of a pile of around five riders. He lost 9:53 to stage winner Sam Welsford (Bora-Hansgrohe), spelling the end of any overall hopes, but the team left it open whether he would start the next stage, saying that he had many superficial wounds, a swollen elbow and ankle and that they would monitor him overnight, making an assessment before today's stage.
