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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Valverde suffers fall but continues at Tour by Agence France-Presse at 8:34 AM EST   comments Categories: Pro Cycling, Tour de France   Spain's Tour de France hopeful Alejandro Valverde, of Caisse d'Epargne, suffered a setback Wednesday when he fell during the 232km stage from Cholet to here. The former race leader and winner of the opening stage fell at the 90km mark, suffering knee and forearm injuries according to officials, but got back on his bike to continue the race. His fall was apparently due to a puncture of his back wheel.       comments Follow @Pro_Cycling Tweet Subscribe via RSS or daily email Contact the editor about this article