{"id":560335,"date":"2026-03-25T19:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560335\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:03:12","slug":"remco-evenepoel-crashes-at-the-end-of-a-spectacular-final-breakaway-with-jonas-vingegaard-in-volta-a-catalunya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560335\/","title":{"rendered":"Remco Evenepoel crashes at the end of a spectacular final breakaway with Jonas Vingegaard in Volta a Catalunya"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were dramatic scenes in the Volta a Catalunya<\/a> today as Remco Evenepoel<\/a> crashed in the final kilometre of stage 3 after staging a late charge for the line with Jonas Vingegaard.<\/p>\n

Evenepoel fell at a roundabout, explaining to Sporza<\/a> that he hit a pothole. While he was able to stand up again, his chances of a spectacular unexpected win had gone up in smoke.<\/p>\n

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“I wanted to get onto my drops and just at that moment there was a pothole that I didn’t see, that wasn’t marked. Then I lost my handlebars,” Evenepoel said.<\/p>\n

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While he seemed uninjured, he was particularly concerned about wounds to his elbow.<\/p>\n

“My elbow is hit quite hard, so we have to see what is and isn’t possible,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I’m in a bit of pain everywhere. My elbow is open, my back is open, and my hips are open.”<\/p>\n

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“Now I have to let my body recover a bit, and then we’ll see what it has to say tonight and especially tomorrow morning.”<\/p>\n

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The two top favourites for the race took off some 30 kilometres from the line, opening up a gap of 20 seconds behind an echelon-shattered peloton.<\/p>\n

Five kilometres from the line they all but sat up, only for Evenepoel to re-up his pace – and then crash just as the two were building up for a sprint.<\/p>\n

Although injured, Evenepoel had no regrets about his attack. “I rode to win,” Evenepoel he said. “That was our intention today with the crosswinds.”<\/p>\n

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Evenepoel received very little cooperation from Vingegaard<\/a> during the escape, saying. “I don’t pay much attention to what others’ tactics are. That is their problem. It was clear who wanted to ride to win and who didn’t.”<\/p>\n

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On what should have a been a straightforward transition stage from Mont-roig del Camp to Vila-seca, the crash happened at the end of a very long straightaway well inside the final kilometre, which the two took at speed.<\/p>\n

But if Vingegaard came through unscathed, Evenepoel was much less fortunate, going over the bars – according to Vingegaard later on – standing up again very quickly, and then briefly walking away from the road.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard then sat up, with the sprint won by Dorian Godon<\/a> (Ineos Grenadiers), whilst Remco and his team car gloomily assessed any potential damage behind.<\/p>\n

As race ambulances rushed to the scene, Evenepoel managed to remount and cross the line behind, with the three kilometres-to-go rule meaning that he was safely within the same time as the remainder of the peloton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were dramatic scenes in the Volta a Catalunya today as Remco Evenepoel crashed in the final kilometre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-560335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}