Aramendía adds to Caja Rural's injury woes

As if having four riders on the sidelines wasn't enough, Javier Aramendía yesterday pulled out of the Tour of Turkey.

Suffering from stomach ailments, the former Euskaltel prodigy finished outside the time limit on Wednesday's fourth stage and will thus not be able to take the start on Thursday. The 26-year-old has had a quiet start to his second year with the green team, his best result being 13th at the Ronde van Drenthe. It's not known how long his latest setback will rule him out for.

Caja Rural is already without the services of David Arroyo, Karol Domagalski, Manuel Cardoso and Iván Velasco - the latter underwent an operation on his broken collarbone earlier this week.

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