<p>The 1980 Tour de France winner Joop Zoetemelk, was taken to hospital in the Paris region on Sunday after being knocked off his bike by a car, his family told AFP.</p>.<p>The 73-year-old Dutchman sustained fractures to both legs and one arm in the collision but his condition is not considered to be life-threatening.</p>.<p>"He has lost blood but, fortunately, his life is not in danger," his close family friend Bernard Thevenet, another former Tour winner, told AFP.</p>.<p>Zoetemelk is just one of two Dutchmen to have won the Tour de France -- the other was Jan Janssen in 1967.</p>.<p>Zoetemelk also won the Vuelta a Espana in 1979 and was world champion in 1985.</p>
<p>The 1980 Tour de France winner Joop Zoetemelk, was taken to hospital in the Paris region on Sunday after being knocked off his bike by a car, his family told AFP.</p>.<p>The 73-year-old Dutchman sustained fractures to both legs and one arm in the collision but his condition is not considered to be life-threatening.</p>.<p>"He has lost blood but, fortunately, his life is not in danger," his close family friend Bernard Thevenet, another former Tour winner, told AFP.</p>.<p>Zoetemelk is just one of two Dutchmen to have won the Tour de France -- the other was Jan Janssen in 1967.</p>.<p>Zoetemelk also won the Vuelta a Espana in 1979 and was world champion in 1985.</p>