Welcome to Rotterdam and the Tour de France Prologue. The Prologue is a time trial, this year over a short 8.9km course which means high speeds. Coupled with the rain in Rotterdam, it was a recipe for disaster. Though surpringly this combination caused only two riders to come a cropper. The first was BMC Racing's Mathias Frank. He slammed into the barriers after his back wheel slipped out from under him as rode over the painted lines whilst speeding around a broad sweeping right hand curve. He ended up with a badly cut lip, a broken right thumb and a torn muscle in his left thigh. His injuries ended his debut Tour before it had really begunPhotograph: Bryn Lennon/Getty Images