Visma-Lease a Bike introduced that Dylan van Baarle and Steven Kruijswijk is not going to proceed within the Critérium du Dauphiné after falling in a mass crash on stage 5.
Richard Plugge, the staff’s supervisor, reacted to a spectator’s video displaying many riders within the peloton falling and sliding down the moist tarmac as if on ice, asking “would this occur in F1? Or would the protection organisation take measures upfront?”
Among the many fallers was race chief Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) and second-placed Primož Roglič (Bora-Hansgrohe). Happily, Matteo Jorgenson, third general, averted the worst of the crash however he’ll begin the final three robust mountain phases with out two key teammates.
“Following the large crash at this time, Dylan van Baarle and Steven Kruijswijk have been taken to the hospital,” Visma-Lease a Bike acknowledged on Twitter.com. “Examinations revealed that Dylan has fractured his collarbone and can want surgical procedure. Steven has a small fracture in his hip that may heal with relaxation.
“We’re very disillusioned to report that we should miss each riders on the Tour de France. We want all of them the most effective for his or her restoration.”
Van Baarle and Kruijswijk have been amongst dozens of riders who fell on a slippery descent with 21km to go on stage 5 from Amplepuis to Saint-Priest. The incident was so widespread that organisers have been pressured to cancel the stage in order that medics might attend to the injured.
Each riders have been on Visma-Lease a Bike’s lengthy staff for the Tour de France together with defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and Wout van Aert, each of whom are recovering from severe accidents suffered this spring.
Van Aert broke his sternum and ribs in a heavy fall throughout Dwars door Vlaanderen whereas Vingegaard suffered a damaged collarbone and a number of other rib fractures together with a collapsed lung from a crash through the Itzulia Basque Nation in April.
Evenepoel and Roglič have been additionally concerned within the Itzulia crash and just lately made their return to racing. Each seemed to be OK after the crash.
“I nearly averted the crash, however one other bike acquired caught below my bike, and I ended up on the bottom, on my proper facet once more,” Evenepoel mentioned. “General, I believe I’m OK, however I’ll know extra tomorrow morning earlier than the beginning of stage 6.”
Roglič additionally fell on a shoulder he injured beforehand, stating, “I crashed on my shoulder, it isn’t the most effective – it is the facet I had surgical procedure on a number of years in the past. We have to examine it and see what sort of a state it’s in. For me positively lots higher than among the guys, I nonetheless rode over the end. However it’s nonetheless shit that these items are taking place.”
Click on under to unfurl the video embed to see the video of at this time’s crash.
