{"id":580977,"date":"2026-04-02T15:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580977\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:39:08","slug":"jaume-guardeno-spanish-cyclist-in-intensive-care-after-collision-with-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580977\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaume Guardeno: Spanish cyclist in intensive care after collision with vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spanish cyclist Jaume Guardeno is in intensive care after suffering serious injuries in a collision with a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old Spaniard finished 29th in the Tour of Catalonia last week and was 14th overall in last year&#8217;s Vuelta a Espana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guardeno was injured during a training ride on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His team, Caja Rural-Seguros RGA, said on Thursday that Guardeno was airlifted to Tauli Hospital in Sabadell by helicopter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was placed in an intensive care unit &#8220;with serious injuries&#8221; where he is &#8220;awaiting further evaluation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/as.com\/ciclismo\/mas_ciclismo\/guardeno-sedado-y-en-estado-grave-tras-un-accidente-f202604-n\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish media, external<\/a> reported that Guardeno suffered a head injury after losing control of his bicycle when he hit a rock, which led to him colliding with a car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We want to express all our support and strength to Jaume and his family during this time, wishing him a speedy and full recovery,&#8221; Caja Rural-RGA said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following his impressive performance at the Vuelta, the promising young starter was in contention to make his Tour de France debut this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish cyclist Jaume Guardeno is in intensive care after suffering serious injuries in a collision with a vehicle.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-580977","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580977","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=580977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}