Tour favorite's hopes end with ravine plunge

Belgian cyclist Remco Evenepoel suffered multiple injuries after plunging into a ravine on the Tour of Lombardy one-day classic won by Jakob Fuglsang of Denmark.

Race favorite Evenepoel, 20, lost control on a descent leading to the finish at Lake Como, hitting a bridge wall and plunging six meters into a ravine. He was taken to a hospital in Como, and early tests showed a fractured pelvis, right lung contusion, cuts and bruising.

Evenepoel had won stages this season in the Tour de San Juan, Tour of the Algarve, Tour de Burgos and the Tour of Poland.

Fuglsang, 35, finished the 231-kilometer race from Bergamo to Como well clear of New Zealander George Bennett.