{"id":761286,"date":"2026-06-26T09:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761286\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:45:18","slug":"%f0%9f%8e%a5-video-footage-of-affinis-crash-is-worrying-for-visma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761286\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfa5 Video footage of Affini&#8217;s crash is worrying for Visma"},"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> will already be without two key riders in the Tour de France, but this Thursday, the team got the shock of their lives when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/edoardo-affini\" title=\"Edoardo Affini\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edoardo Affini<\/a> also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/visma-lease-a-bibkes-affini-suffers-hard-crash-at-italian-time-trial-taken-away-in-ambulance\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">took a hard fall during the Italian time trial championship<\/a>. The Dutch team provided a reassuring update that evening, but new footage doesn&#8217;t look good for the Italian rider.Visma | Lease a Bike has already suffered two setbacks ahead of the Tour de France, with the withdrawals of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/christophe-laporte-will-miss-the-tour-de-france-in-major-blow-for-visma-and-vingegaard\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christophe Laporte<\/a> and Wout van Aert. The Frenchman tore a thigh muscle in a crash, and the Belgian developed an infection in his elbow after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/heijboer-explains-the-scare-van-aert-escaped-in-the-days-that-ended-his-tour\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">crashing during the Tour Auvergne\u2013Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes<\/a>. As a result, the Killer Bees had to call up Per Strand Hagenes and Davide Piganzoli as replacements.With two riders already out, the team would dearly hope that no one else would suffer a crash ahead of La Grande Boucle, but things went wrong anyway during the Italian time trial championship. Affini, a former European champion and one of the top contenders to challenge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/filippo-ganna-adds-7th-italian-time-trial-title-to-his-palmares-as-vismas-affini-crashes-hard\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">favorite Filippo Ganna<\/a>, reportedly took a hard fall and was forced to withdraw. That news was later confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Read more below the photo!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/edoardo-affini-6a3e1b4b67deb.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"edoardo-affini\"\/>Footage from after the Affini crash is hard to watchThe top sprinter, who lives in Drenthe and speaks Dutch fluently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/visma-lease-a-bibkes-affini-suffers-hard-crash-at-italian-time-trial-taken-away-in-ambulance\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was taken to the hospital for a checkup<\/a>. There were concerns, but ultimately Visma | Lease a Bike provided a relatively reassuring update. \u201cEdoardo took a hard fall, was taken to the hospital, and never lost consciousness. Tests at the hospital showed no fractures. His recovery will be monitored over the next few days.\u201dThis is a boost ahead of the Tour, but it hasn\u2019t been confirmed yet whether he\u2019ll be there. And when we see the footage of the crash, it certainly makes us think twice. The crash itself wasn\u2019t caught on camera, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RenaudB31\/status\/2070373229114401165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">but the aftermath was<\/a>: Affini can be seen next to the guardrails, with a bike whose front tire has come off the rim. Was that the cause of the crash? It\u2019s not clear. His helmet was also damaged, and the Italian rider was unable to get into the ambulance on his own: he had to be carried out on a stretcher.Watch the footage of Affini&#8217;s crash here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visma | Lease a Bike will already be without two key riders in the Tour de France, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,175718,85,346968,23372],"class_list":["post-761286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-edoardo-affini","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france-2026","tag-visma-lease-a-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761286","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=761286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}