It was apparently a truly horrific crash — he shot completely off the road and into a deep, rocky ravine; rescuers needed 20 minutes to retrieve him. Team officials say he is in a medically induced coma with a broken femur and knee, several broken ribs and a punctured lung, plus head and chest trauma.
SHOOT: Columbia's doing well.
On Twitter Armstrong says: St 8 is done. Tough, hilly day. Legs finally felt a bit better today. Team Faded was AMAZING !! 40 dudes left. We had 8. Boo-ya.
Pictures and video of stage 8.
(CNN) -- Team Columbia's impressive Giro d'Italia continued on Saturday as Belarussian Kanstantin Siutsou handed the American outfit their third stage victory when he won the 209km eighth leg from Morbegno to Bergamo.
Di Luca collected an eight-second time bonus for finishing third to extend his overall advantage over Sweden's Thomas Lovkvist, who also rides for Columbia, to 13 seconds. Rogers lies third overall, 44 seconds behind.
Sunday's eighth stage, a pancake flat 165km of racing around 10 laps of a Milan city circuit, is likely to finish in a sprint finish which could see Cavendish claim Columbia's third successive stage victory.
Meanwhile, Saturday's stage was marred by a nasty accident involving Spaniard Pedro Horrillo of the Rabobank team.
Horillo was airlifted to hospital by helicopter after crashing down a ravine on the descent of the Culmine di San Pietro mountain about 70km into the stage.
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