Because of his injury Leipheimer will not start in the 2009 Paris-Nice. The Vuelta a Castilla y León will be his first race after his recovery period. 

Tomas Vaitkus and Valeriy Dmitriyev both crashed in the 2009 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad yesterday. The Kazakh rider has a big contusion of the muscles of the right calf and will be out for minimum two weeks.

Lithuanian road champion Tomas Vaikus, on his way to a top five placing in the race, could not escape a crash of another rider in the final sprint and went down as well. He has an non-displaced fracture of the head of his right radius bone in his right elbow - the same type of fracture that Alberto Contador suffered from in the 2008 Giro d'Italia. A CAT scan of a painful wrist, however, fortunately did not reveal any fracture.