World champion Mark Cavendish has released a photograph of the injury he sustained following a crash in the Giro d'Italia yesterday.
Cavendish criticised a rival rider after crashing on the third stage of the race won by Matthew Goss.
Cavendish (Team Sky) and overall leader Taylor Phinney (BMC Racing) both hit the tarmac in the finale of the 190-kilometres circuit around east Jutland which began and finished in Horsens, but Goss kept out of trouble to secure his first victory of the season and Orica-Green Edge's maiden Grand Tour success.
Juan Jose Haedo (Saxo Bank) was second and Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Baracuda) third after also avoiding the carnage.
Cavendish blamed Roberto Ferrari for causing the accident and race commissaires relegated the Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela rider to last place on the stage.
The Briton Tweeted: "Ouch! Crashing at 75kph isn't nice! Nor is seeing Roberto Ferrari's manoeuvre. Should be ashamed to take out Pink, Red & World Champ jerseys.
"Is the team of Roberto Ferrari or the UCI going to do the right thing? Other riders, including myself, have been sent home for much less."
