Professional cycling is a brutal sport which can rule out anyone, from the world’s best rider to a Continental-level domestique, for months in just a split second.

Crashes are part and parcel of racing and training, which means that every team in the peloton has a list of injured riders to look after at some point during the season. 2026 is no different, with plenty of riders suffering various fractures and injuries in the month and a half since top-level racing began in Australia.

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“It’s just so dangerous now, and it’s getting worse and worse, with the speed of the racing and the aggressive way they’re racing,” Sean Kelly wrote in his most recent Cyclingnews column. “Everybody seems to be fighting for every centimetre of road, and nobody is backing off at all. So you get all these crashes and all these broken bones. The issue has to be looked at immediately.”

abdominal trauma, fractured femur, Tour of Oman (Feb 10)Sergio Samitier – Fractured radius, scaphoid, Tour of Oman (Feb 9)Fractured pelvis, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)Tobias Foss – Fractured shoulder blade, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Feb 4)Fractured collarbone, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne (Mar 1)Mikkel Bjerg – Fractured shoulder, hand, Tour Down Under (Jan 26)Jhonatan Narváez – Fractured vertebrae, Tour Down Under (Jan 24)Vegard Stake Laengen – Rib injury, Tour Down Under (Jan 24)Pericardial rupture, fractured ribs, collapsed long, vertebrae fracture, training crash (Aug 27, 2025)