Cycling-Vingegaard Breaks Collarbone In Major Crash At Tour Of The Basque Country

Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard broke a collarbone and a number of other ribs in a large crash throughout stage 4 within the Tour of the Basque Country on Thursday, which additionally concerned race chief Primoz Roglic and Remco Evenepoel.

The crash occurred at excessive pace on the descent from the Olaeta climb with 35.9-km remaining when one rider went down inflicting a series response, and Vingegaard was nonetheless on the bottom receiving medical remedy a number of minutes later.

“The stage has been neutralised. Jonas is on his way to the hospital,” Vingegaard’s Team Visma-Lease a Bike mentioned on social media platform X. Only the unique breakaway of six riders had been allowed to contest the stage win.

Vingegaard, 27, was taken away on a stretcher sporting a neck brace.

“Examinations at the hospital have revealed that he has a broken collarbone and several broken ribs. He remains in hospital as a precaution,” Team Visma-Lease a Bike later mentioned.

Evenepoel’s Soudal-Quick Step workforce mentioned the Belgian had deserted the race and he was taken to hospital within the workforce automobile, with Slovenian Roglic of Bora–Hansgrohe additionally compelled to withdraw.

Australian Jay Vine of UAE-Team Emirates was one other rider taken to hospital by ambulance, together with his workforce saying he was acutely aware and speaking.

There had been no ambulances left to comply with the race and the stage was stopped for an hour earlier than the organisers determined to proceed.

“The race is neutralised until the finish line, the six leading runners will compete in the stage but the stage times will not be counted for the general classification. The peloton will go in neutral until the finish line,” race organisers mentioned.

South African Louis Meintjes of Intermarche-Wanty received the stage, however his victory was overshadowed by the crash.

“It’s not the way you want to win,” Meintjes mentioned.

“I felt good and if there was a chance for the breakaway I would have been ready to fight for the stage, but it takes a bit of the pleasure out of it. It’s maybe a victory but it doesn’t really feel like it. You want it to be fair for everyone.”

Roglic got here into stage 4 with a seven-second lead over Evenepoel, with Vingegaard an additional seven seconds behind in fifth, however with the primary contenders out of the race, Dane Mattias Skjelmose of Lidl-Trek now holds the general lead.

(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – Reuters)