Aurelien CANOT 04/04/2024 8:16 p.m.
Good news after Thursday’s terrible fall on the 4th stage of the Tour of the Basque Country in which Jonas Vingegaard, very seriously injured, was the main victim: the Danish champion’s vital prognosis is not in jeopardy. His sports director assured that the double winner of the Tour de France was conscious in the ambulance which took him to hospital.
Jonas Vingegaard is conscious, in a stable condition, and this is already excellent news. The Dane nevertheless suffers from multiple fractures after his fall in the Tour of the Basque Country this Friday. “Tests carried out at the hospital revealed that he had a broken collarbone and several broken ribs. He remains hospitalized as a precautionary measure,” indicates the Dutch team Team Visma-Lease a bike on X. A disaster less than a hundred days before the start of the Tour de France.
While waiting to find out more…
Only one thing mattered when the leader of the Visma-Lease a Bike team, seriously injured in the back after hitting a stone or concrete block at the side of the road during this descent of the Untzilla, was taken into the ambulance, and it was a question of whether or not there was reason to fear for the life of the young 27-year-old runner. This is fortunately not the case. Vingegaard’s vital prognosis is in fact not in jeopardy.
Frans Maassen, one of the sports directors of the Dane’s team, quickly ensured shortly after this terrible fall which also involved Remco Evenpoel and Primoz Roglic, both of whom were forced to retire, and forced the organization to neutralize the stage for the platoon, which its leader was conscious in the ambulance.
2024-04-04 20:29:07
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