[Baynative]

First three riders to abandon the Tour de France: William Bonnet (FDJ), Tom Dumoulin (Giant) and Simon Gerrans (Orica).

Cancellara (yellow Jersey) went down but is back up riding slowly.

Race was neutralized because there was a second crash about 1 minute after the first and no medical or team cars could get through the first mess.

[Baynative]

Early news report are sketchy as always. The riders were really flying when they went down. I'm surprised any of them even got up.

They stopped the race at the bottom of the first climb in a narrow village road and official cars couldn't get through the riders to restart the race.