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Hey everyone, Sam Vuele chicken in here, not from the Tour de France anymore.

I'm sure most of you have seen that I crashed out on stage 10. I went down in a nasty pile-up,

half way through the stage. It was a big crash and I was hoping I was going to find a way through it.

I headed for the grass. The crash happened on the other side of the bunch to where I was and I thought if I headed for the grass I'd be OK.

I might be able to sneak around it but unfortunately that wasn't the case.

I ended up ragdolling through a ditch and popping out the other side with a broken wrist and a broken rib.

I ended up in a devastated morale. That was the end of my tour at that point and I knew it straight away.

I didn't even manage to get back on my bike. I knew straight away at that point that I'd broken something and that was the end of my tour.

So it was really, really devastating for me. It's been hard couple of days having to leave the race under those circumstances.

I've come back to back home now. I left the race yesterday, called a train back down to Spain and had some scans and things today.

Thankfully the scans came back pretty good and I'm just dealing with a fracture in the radius.

It sounds like it won't require any surgery which is great news. Hopefully that'll mean that I'll be in a cast for a few weeks,

but hopefully in less than that in a week and a half or two weeks I can start training again on the road with a cast on obviously.

But as long as I can hold the handlebars and brake and change gears and I don't have any pain then that'll be the goal.

It's difficult to make a plan at this point with this condensed season. It's obviously not that long to go in the season.

And the other grind to a start pretty soon. So hard to make a plan is to, if I'll be able to come back with some race in this year, but that's definitely the plan.

If I can get back at least for something before the season closes that would be a great situation.

So that's what we're shooting for at the moment. But at the moment I'm just at home just reflecting on what actually was a pretty amazing 10 days.

Even though it was a very short lift to for me, a very short lift debut and as devastated as I am not to be there anymore with the guys.

I've had a couple of days now to sit back and just reflect on those 10 days and it really was special to line up my first sort of France and then to defend the Irish Uzi for four days.

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