Contador crashes in Tour de France first stage

Cycling - Tour de France cycling race - Training ahead of the weekend's start - Coutances, France - 1/07/2016 - Tinkoff team rider Alberto Contador of Spain during a training session - REUTERS/Juan Medina

UTAH BEACH, France (Reuters) - Alberto Contador's Tour de France chances suffered an early blow on Saturday when the Spaniard crashed with about 80 kilometres left in the first stage.

The Tinkoff rider, twice winner of the Tour, fell heavily on a bend but quickly got back on his bike with bruises to his right shoulder.

He was helped by several team mates to rejoin the peloton before changing his right shoe and having his right shoulder taped by a race doctor.

(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Ed Osmond)