Jonas Vingegaard was the victim of a serious fall which also involved several riders, notably Primoz Roglic and Remco Evenepoel, Thursday during the 4th stage of the Tour of the Basque Country. The Dane was placed in a lateral safety position by the emergency services, before being evacuated on a stretcher with respiratory assistance and a neck brace, according to television images. All three men gave up.
Vingegaard “conscious” after his heavy fall in the Tour of the Basque Country
The Dane Jonas Vingegaard is “conscious” and will “undergo examinations” in hospital, announced his team Visma-Lease a Bike on X. Caught in a fall which also involved Primoz Roglic and Remco Evenepoel, the double winner of the Tour from France, aged 27, was placed in a lateral safety position by emergency services before being evacuated on a stretcher with respiratory assistance and a neck brace, according to television images.
Another runner, Australian Jay Vine, who was not moving was also treated on the side of the road, while the organizers neutralized the race. His team also announced that he had been taken to hospital.
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Entre los caídos, Primoz Roglic, Remco Evenepoel, Quinten Hermans and Jonas Vingegaard
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A series of dramatic crashes this spring
The organizers neutralized the race for a moment, before restarting it. The accident took place on a downhill bend around thirty kilometers from the finish. Several riders skidded towards the shoulder and hit stone blocks and a concrete drain. Roglic, who wears the yellow leader’s jersey, and Evenepoel got up after the accident, but Roglic left the scene of the accident by car.
This fall comes on top of a series of dramatic crashes this spring in cycling races. Last Wednesday, Wout Van Aert was notably caught in a collective fall in Across Flanders. Polytraumatized, the Belgian champion suffered burns to his back and especially fractures to his collarbone, ribs and sternum, signaling the end of his dream of winning the Tour of Flanders or Paris-Roubaix on Sunday. On Wednesday, Roglic and Ayuso had already been caught in a relatively violent fall in the Tour of the Basque Country, but they returned to the race.