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Belgian bike owner Wout van Aert, the reigning Olympic street race silver medalist and a podium favourite for the Paris Video games, crashed through the Dwars door Vlaanderen race Wednesday and fractured his collarbone together with a number of ribs.
Belgian bike owner Wout van Aert, the reigning Olympic street race silver medalist and a podium favourite for the Paris Video games, crashed through the Dwars door Vlaanderen race Wednesday and fractured his collarbone together with a number of ribs.
The chief of the Visma-Lease a Bike crew crashed in Belgium simply forward of the climb of Berg ten Houte together with Biniam Girmay of Intermarche-Wanty and Mads Pedersen and Jasper Stuyven of Lidl-Trek. Van Aert was helped onto a stretcher and brought to the medical tent for X-rays, which revealed the extent of his accidents.
“It’s unclear how lengthy his restoration will take,” the Visma crew stated in a press release. “Van Aert will certainly miss the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix and the Amstel Gold Race.”
Stuyven additionally appeared to harm his collarbone within the crash, whereas Pedersen and Girmay didn’t seem to have main accidents.
Van Aert’s teammate, Matteo Jorgenson of the U.S., went on to win Dwars door Vlaanderen with a solo assault from a breakaway.
Van Aert is broadly thought-about one of many world’s greatest and most versatile riders. The three-time cyclocross world champion can be the winner of 10 phases and the factors classification on the Tour de France, together with the winner of such main races as Milan-San Remo, Strade Bianchi, Gent-Wevelgem and Amstel Gold.
Belgium has certified the utmost 4 riders for the street race on the Paris Olympics, and two of these riders will participate within the time trial. Van Aert was on the lengthy checklist launched final fall together with Remco Evenepoel and a number of other different stars.
Van Aert was planning to skip the Tour de France, which ends simply earlier than the Summer time Video games, in order that he could be more energizing for the Olympics. He as a substitute deliberate to race the Giro d’Italia in Could, although these plans are actually in query after his crash.
Throughout the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, van Aert was a part of a chasing group attempting to catch eventual winner Richard Carapaz at Fuji Speedway. However the group was greater than a minute behind the Ecuadorian on the end, and van Aert was left to out-sprint a gaggle that included American rider Brandon McNulty and bronze medalist Tadej Pogacar for the silver medal.
Van Aert additionally competed within the particular person time trial in Japan, ending in sixth place however a mere 37 seconds out of the medals.
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