An MRI scan revealed an undisplaced fracture of the sacrum of Levi Leipheimer. It resulted from a crash in the third stage of the Amgen Tour of California. This fracture didn't prevent him from winning the time trial and the overall classification in that Tour of California, although he suffered from a lot of pain. Because of his injury Leipheimer will not start in Paris-Nice. The Vuelta a Castilla y León will be his first race after his recovery  period.

Lithuanian road champion Tomas Vaikus, on his way to a top 5 placing in the race, could not escape a crash of another rider in the final  sprint and went down as well. He has an undisplaced fracture of the  head of the right radius bone in the right elbow; the same type of  fracture Alberto Contador had in the Giro d'Italia of 2008. A CAT scan of a painful wrist did not reveal any fracture.