A week after 23-year-old\u2019s participation in the Tour of Catalonia, Guardeno suffers head injuries in collision with car.<\/p>\n
Published On 2 Apr 20262 Apr 2026<\/p>\n
Spanish cyclist Jaume Guardeno suffered a serious injury in a training crash and is receiving intensive care treatment in hospital, his team Caja Rural-RGA said.<\/p>\n
\u201cGuardeno suffered a fall last Tuesday while training after his participation in the Tour of Catalonia, which resulted in a collision with a vehicle, resulting in serious injury,\u201d said the team in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe was taken by helicopter to Hospital Tauli in Sabadell, where he is in the ICU with serious injuries and under observation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spanish media reported that he suffered a head injury after losing control of his bike when he rode over a stone and collided with a car.<\/p>\n
The promising 23-year-old finished 29th in the Tour of Catalonia last week and 14th in last year\u2019s Vuelta a Espana Grand Tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to express all our support and strength to Jaume and his family during this time, wishing him a speedy and full recovery,\u201d added Caja Rural-RGA.<\/p>\n
Carapaz undergoes perineal surgery<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, former Olympic champion Richard Carapaz \u2060has \u2060undergone surgery for a perineal condition a month before \u2060the Giro d\u2019Italia, but the Ecuadorean aims to be fit \u2060to compete for a fourth podium finish in the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t part of the plan, but \u200cit was handled in the best possible way,\u201d the 32-year-old, who won the Giro in 2019, finished second in 2022 and took third place \u2060last year, posted on \u2060Instagram on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Carapaz, who took gold in the road race at the Tokyo \u2060Olympics, missed the Tour de France \u2060and the Vuelta a \u2060Espana due to illness last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom today, I\u2019m fully focused on my \u200crecovery and on getting back to peak condition ahead of \u200cthe \u200cGiro,\u201d Carapaz added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A week after 23-year-old\u2019s participation in the Tour of Catalonia, Guardeno suffers head injuries in collision with car.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,3456,44,7413,457,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-577838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-spain","14":"tag-sport","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577838","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=577838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}