Stage 10 of the Tour de France (open in new tab) may have looked like a mediocre sprint stage on paper, but there was plenty of action on the road from Ile d'Oléron to Ile de Ré.

Sam Bennett (Desseuninck-Quick Step) won the sprint to claim his first Tour stage win.

It was a brutal day, with two riders leaving the race with broken bones, another losing valuable memorabilia in a crash, a desperate breakaway group along the way, and numerous others falling to the deck.

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Due to a string of crashes on stage 10, only two riders left the race Tuesday night. [Davide Formolo (open in new tab) (UAE Team Emirates) and Sam Bury (open in new tab) (Mitchelton-Scott) suffered broken bones during their Tour debut.

Formolo, who finished 164th out of 164 riders, suffered a group crash with 65 km to go and hit the deck, breaking his collarbone. He will undergo surgery within two days and is expected to miss more than a month.

"David has a fracture to the mid clavicle with minimal dislocation. He will undergo surgery within 48 hours and should be able to return to racing in five to six weeks."

Bury, on the other hand, fell before 30 km and broke his wrist. He was unable to continue and left the race shortly after.

Nicolas Roche suffered a severe crash on stage 10 of the Tour de France, about 70 km into the 168 km stage to Ile de Re, and for a time it looked as if he would never recover. However, the Sunweb rider was helped to his feet and given time to recover before getting back on his bike and riding back to the peloton.

However, he left behind something important: his bracelet. Roche put out a call on Twitter for anyone who could find the gem, which had sentimental value.

Images from Roche's past show him wearing a thin leather band with gold beads on his right wrist.

The scene of the accident was near the intersection of the D72 and D131 near La Presse. Roche fell on the south side of the road, in front of the coat of arms of the La Charente-Maritime department painted on the pavement.

Stefan Küng won the most aggressive rider award at Tuesday's Tour de France, but his escape with fellow Swiss rider Michael Scheer lasted only half the stage.

"Initially, I wasn't planning on going on the attack today. It was supposed to be very nervous on a day like today, there were no GC riders or sprinters, so I thought, "It would be less stressful to stay in front than to stay in the peloton."

Grupama-FDJ overall leader Thibaut Pinot had a terrible time in the Pyrenees after hurting his back in a crash on the opening stage, and on Tuesday's stage to Ile de Re, a route with many roundabouts and narrow roads that threatened crosswind splits and crashes He lost even more time in a tense race with roundabouts and narrow roads that could lead to crosswind breakups and crashes.

Fearing things were spiraling out of control, the peloton pulled back to within two minutes of the two Swiss riders with more than 90 km still to race. Kühn said, "They didn't want to give us much space, and as soon as they got nervous they came back."

"I knew right away that the sprinters were in control. 'It would be very difficult to let these two widen the gap. The sprinters don't have many chances, and when they have a real chance like they did today, they don't want to take it."

"I went into this stage calmer than usual. But when you don't have the stakes, you can unintentionally lose focus and attention and get caught up in crashes. There were so many today. Mathieu [Radagnoux] himself crashed, but fortunately there were no consequences. The other riders got through it. It will be the same tomorrow, but there is nothing to gain, so the objective was to not take any risks. We had to run carefully," concluded Bricot.

Trek-Segafredo's Toms Skuzinsch (open in new tab) was also caught in the crossfire on Tuesday, crashing in the first half of the stage. The former Latvian champion was later seen in the medical car with both sides of his shorts torn and a road rash on his left side.

In a video posted by the team on social media, Skuzinish gave an update on his condition while receiving a post-stage massage and said he could start stage 11.

"I actually feel ok. The only thing I'm worried about is my knee. But I finished the stage, so I hope it doesn't hurt so bad that I can't start tomorrow."

"Lots of road rash, mostly on the left side, but just a little bit on my right butt cheek. Sleeping is not a problem. I can sleep on either side, so I mostly sleep on my right side now."