{"id":631597,"date":"2026-04-26T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631597\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:34:08","slug":"matteo-jorgensonback-on-the-bike-after-heavy-amstel-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631597\/","title":{"rendered":"Matteo Jorgensonback on the bike after heavy Amstel crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/visma-lease-a-bike\" title=\"Visma | Lease a Bike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Visma | Lease a Bike<\/a> head into Sunday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/liege-bastogne-liege-2026-start-lists-the-return-of-the-world-champion-womens-race-stacked-with-stars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge<\/a> \u2014 the final Monument of the spring \u2014 without their intended leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/matteo-jorgenson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matteo Jorgenson<\/a>. Following his crash at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/amstel-gold-race\" title=\"Amstel Gold Race\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amstel Gold Race<\/a> last week, the team has turned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/ben-tulett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Tulett<\/a> as their strongest card to play in the finale.On Saturday, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXjNgnAjEzd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted a video on social media<\/a> of Jorgenson at the team hotel. It shows the American \u2014 post broken collarbone operation \u2014 back on the rollers just six days after his crash in South Limburg. Li\u00e8ge is, understandably, too soon.In Jorgenson&#8217;s absence, the team&#8217;s focus shifts primarily to Ben Tulett, who took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/ben-tulett-podiums-at-fleche-wallonne-after-less-than-ideal-preparation\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a fine third place<\/a> at La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne on Wednesday. J\u00f8rgen Nordhagen \u2014 a co-leader in Huy but not in the picture for Sunday \u2014 has been left out.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Kruijswijk, Menno Huising, Filippo Fiorelli, Owain Doull, Tim Rex and Pietro Mattio will complete the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Read on below the video!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Evenepoel&#8217;s teammates confirmed; Alaphilippe out of Li\u00e8ge<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe have also named their squad for Li\u00e8ge. Leader Remco Evenepoel will have support from Jai Hindley, Daniel Felipe Mart\u00ednez and Finn Fisher-Black in the finale, with Haimar Etxeberria, Nico Denz and Jan Tratnik also in the team. Maxim Van Gils \u2014 who did do the course reconnaissance with Evenepoel \u2014 is not yet fit to race.<\/p>\n<p>Tudor Pro Cycling, meanwhile, confirmed that leader Julian Alaphilippe will not start in the Ardennes, having already abandoned both the Amstel Gold Race and La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne early. &#8220;Julian Alaphilippe will unfortunately miss both Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge and Eschborn-Frankfurt due to medical reasons,&#8221; the team stated. &#8220;As a result, he will not be competing in the upcoming events in order to prioritise his health and ensure a full return to racing. In the meantime, we wish him a smooth recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visma | Lease a Bike head into Sunday&#8217;s Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge \u2014 the final Monument of the spring \u2014 without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[212379,64,63,784,63661,85,23372],"class_list":["post-631597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-amstel-gold-race","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-matteo-jorgenson","tag-sports","tag-visma-lease-a-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631597","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=631597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}