Two-time defending Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard remained hospitalized in Spain a day after he broke his collarbone and a number of other ribs in a foul crash with different high riders through the Tour of Basque Nation.
The Danish rider’s Visma-Lease A Bike workforce stated Friday that additional checks revealed the Vingegaard additionally suffered a collapsed lung and a pulmonary contusion. The workforce stated that biking’s main star was “steady and had a superb night time” however stays in a hospital within the northern Spanish metropolis of Vitoria.
The accident comes lower than three months earlier than the beginning of the Tour on June 29 when Vingegaard is scheduled to to once more face off towards high rival Tadej Pogačar. That extremely anticipated rematch is now unsure.
Vingegaard was hardly shifting as he was put in an ambulance carrying an oxygen masks and neck brace after the crash occurred on Thursday with lower than 30 kilometres left within the race’s fourth stage.
The pileup additionally took out biking stars Primož Roglič and Remco Evenepoel.
Evenepoel, thought-about one of many favourites for the street race on the Paris Video games, broke a collarbone and his proper shoulder blade and was set to endure surgical procedure when he returns to Belgium on Friday, his Soudal Fast-Step workforce stated.
The accident occurred as riders have been making what appeared to be a standard right-hand flip going downhill when one rider’s entrance tire appeared to slide out and ship different cyclists off the street. There have been some giant rocks and bushes within the space, although it wasn’t clear if any of the riders hit them. There was additionally a concrete drainage ditch place on the sting of the curve.
Roglič, a three-time Spanish Vuelta winner, emerged with simply scratches however he did should abandon the race he was main.
Vingegaard was attempting to defend the tittle he received final 12 months on the six-day Tour of Basque Nation.
