He was way out to the left of the screen - I noticed the yellow jersey all the way against the barriers, and thought for a minute he was going to crash.
Hopefully he'll be able to continue as to lose a good rider only detracts from the overall race quality. From one source comes the following;
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A few minutes later, in the mad dash to the finish, Hushovd sliced open his right arm when he brushed against an outsized green cardboard hand that a fan had thrust out over the safety barriers that line the final straightaways.
The cut bled profusely and needed stitches in a hospital. Tour organizers announced that from now on, the giant hands — freebies from a race sponsor — no longer would be distributed in the final stretches of flat stages which, as on Sunday, often finish with a mass sprint.
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