Jonas Vingegaard has been taken to hospital along with leading Australian rider Jay Vine after some of the world’s best cyclists suffered injuries in a bad mass crash in Spain.
Jonas Vingegaard has been taken to hospital along with leading Australian rider Jay Vine after some of the world’s best cyclists suffered injuries in a bad mass crash at high speed in the Itzulia Basque Country race in Spain.was reported by his Visma-Lease a Bike team to have suffered a broken collarbone and several ribs but was “conscious” after the alarming crash which threatens his hopes of a famous treble in July.
“Jay Vine suffered a heavy crash today during the race and sustained a cervical and two thoracic spine vertebral body fractures,” the update said. Giro d’Italia champion Primoz Roglic, who had been the overnight leader, also abandoned the race after giving a thumbs-up to cameras from the BORA-hansgrohe team car to show he was OK.In all, 12 riders near the front of the peloton were involved in the crash which happened with about 35 kilometres left of the fourth stage between Etxarri Aranatz and Legutio, in northern Spain.
The race was then neutralised until the finish, with only the six riders who had been at the front being allowed to sprint for the finish to try to win the stage, victory eventually going to the underwhelmed South African Louis Meintjes, who admitted it was a hollow triumph.
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