Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a BIke) has been forced to abandon the Vuelta España Femenina after breaking her collarbone in a crash on the opening day.

Vos, who is the race's record stage winner, was looking for a seventh win when she crashed into a ditch on a wet section of road late on in the race's opening day on Sunday.

While she still managed to finish seventh on the uphill finish to Slavaterra de Miño, she was later to found to have broken her collarbone, the injury forcing the 38-year-old to abandon the race ahead of Monday's stage.

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The stage was won by Noemi Rüegg (EF Education-Oatly), but the uphill finish clearly suited Vos's punchy style, and she would have been targeting a seventh stage win at Spain's Grand Tour.…