Jonas Vingegaard crashed out of the Tour de France after breaking his collarbone in a crash which resulted in riders landing on spectators.<\/p>\n
In a stage 15 won by Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel, two-time winner Vingegaard – seen as the only real threat to defending champion and yellow jersey wearer Tadej Pogacar – was tackling a tight right-hand bend off a roundabout when his front wheel slid out, causing him to land on his shoulder.<\/p>\n
The concertina effect caused three other riders to catapult over Vingegaard and on to spectators standing on the outside of the corner, with Pogacar’s UAE Team Emirates-XRG team-mate Isaac del Toro, of Mexico, landing on a woman with crutches who was seated.<\/p>\n
Denmark’s Vingegaard will now have surgery “in the coming days due to the severity of the fracture”, according to a team statement.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard’s team-mate Sepp Kuss, of the USA, and Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe’s Jai Hindley, of Australia, were also involved, but continued.<\/p>\n
The stage was won unexpectedly by Evenepoel of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe after managing to stay with Pogacar, and then power away from Del Toro.<\/p>\n
Evenepoel is widely considered the third-best rider in the world for overall ability for his supreme time trial skills, but typically he suffers on steep climbs.<\/p>\n
But on the uncategorised final climb of Sunday’s 183.9km stage from Champagnole to Plateau de Solaison, he matched Pogacar for the first time on such parcours.<\/p>\n
Evenepoel is favourite to win stage 16 on Tuesday – a 26.1km time trial to Thonon les Bains.<\/p>\n
“I’m trembling with the emotion,” said Evenepoel afterwards. “It was hard in the beginning, but I got better and better during the day. <\/p>\n
“You have to understand I am racing the best guy ever [Pogacar] and for me it’s a big step forward that I can follow this pace. I always get so many critics saying: ‘You cannot survive steep climbs.’ So it means a lot.”<\/p>\n
Pogacar remains in the overall leader’s yellow jersey, five minutes ahead of Evenepoel, who is a further 58 seconds ahead of Del Toro.<\/p>\n
Britain’s Tom Pidcock of Pinarello-Q36.5 was a contender for victory across much of the stage as he was part of a earlier breakaway group that lasted beyond the category one Col de la Croisette climb, alongside American ‘hipster rider’ Quinn Simmons of Lidl-Trek, who won the day super-combatif award.<\/p>\n
France’s young sensation Paul Seixas of Decathlon-CMA CGM fought to keep up with the leaders, but lost his youth classification white jersey after coming home fourth, 52 seconds behind Del Toro.<\/p>\n
The King of the Mountains jersey returned to Pogacar after Valentin Paret-Peintre of Soudal-Quick Step finished way down in 79th place.<\/p>\n
Denmark’s Mads Pedersen retained the green points jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard crashed out of the Tour de France after breaking his collarbone in a crash which resulted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-557917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}