{"id":521697,"date":"2026-03-06T04:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521697\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:02:11","slug":"michael-matthews-ruled-out-of-upcoming-racing-after-suffering-two-broken-wrists-team-jayco-alula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521697\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Matthews ruled out of upcoming racing after suffering two broken wrists \u2013 Team Jayco Alula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately Team Jayco AlUla leader Michael Matthews suffered a crash whilst out training today, Thursday 5th March, and was transferred to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Team medical staff have confirmed that CT-scan results show fractures to both of his wrists, subsequently ruling him out of all upcoming races.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old enjoyed a dream start to the 2026 season with a victory in his first race, Gran Premio Castell\u00f3n. He was set to line-up on Sunday at his first major WorldTour test of the season, the gruelling eight-day Paris-Nice.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews is now in direct contact with team medical staff and will have extensive support to aid a swift recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Get well soon, \u2018Bling\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unfortunately Team Jayco AlUla leader Michael Matthews suffered a crash whilst out training today, Thursday 5th March, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-521697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521697","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=521697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}