{"id":389363,"date":"2026-01-03T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389363\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:00:09","slug":"cycling-cycling-van-aert-undergoes-successful-surgery-after-fracture-in-cyclo-cross-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389363\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling: Cycling-Van Aert undergoes successful surgery after fracture in cyclo-cross crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Two-time \u200cOlympic medallist Wout van Aert \u200chas undergone successful surgery on Saturday, \u200ca day after spraining his ankle and sustaining a fracture in a crash, his team \u200dVisma-Lease a Bike said.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dBelgian, who won \u200csilver at the Tokyo Olympics in the \u200droad \u200brace and took bronze in the time trial at \u2060the Paris Games, had crashed on a \u200cpaved curve during a cyclo-cross race in \u2060Mol after \u200dit snowed heavily.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old, who took the green jersey in the 2022 \u200dTour de France, said he \u200cwas disappointed after the fall in a statement shared by his team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course I am very disappointed to have to end my cyclo-cross season like this&#8230; my focus will now be \u200con recovery and, later on, the preparation of the road season,&#8221; said Van Aert, \u200ba three-time world champion in cyclo-cross.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Chiranjit Ojha in Bengaluru, editing by Pritha Sarkar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Two-time \u200cOlympic medallist Wout van Aert \u200chas undergone successful surgery on Saturday, \u200ca day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,84009,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-389363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-olympics-2024","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}