{"id":431104,"date":"2026-02-17T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431104\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:00:09","slug":"theres-a-lot-of-emotion-in-my-head-jan-christen-apologises-for-causing-crash-that-put-maxim-van-gils-out-of-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431104\/","title":{"rendered":"‘There’s a lot of emotion in my head’ \u2013 Jan Christen apologises for causing crash that put Maxim Van Gils out of action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan Christen<\/a> (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) has issued a heartfelt apology for causing a crash during the Cl\u00e1sica Ja\u00e9n<\/a> that has put Maxim Van Gils (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) out of action for at least two months.<\/p>\n

Christen was part of a three-rider chasing group on Monday behind teammate and race winner Tim Wellens with Tom Pidcock (Pinarello-Q36.5) and Van Gils.<\/p>\n

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During the dash for the line, Christen tried to start his sprint but ran into Van Gils, sending the Belgian sprawling to the tarmac. Officials disqualified Christen from the race<\/a>. Teammate Beno\u00eet Cosnefroy was elevated to the last spot on the podium after crossing the line in fourth place.<\/p>\n

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The impact of the crash fractured Van Gils’ pelvis<\/a>, and he will miss “the upcoming months of racing”, according to his team.<\/p>\n

Christen said the incident was “not the end I intended after the unfortunate crash close [to] the finish” before explaining what happened.<\/p>\n

“I wanna apologize to Maxime (sic) for today, I jumped for the slipstream of Tom when he startet (sic) the sprint and did not see him coming on my left inside.<\/p>\n

“It was an unfortunate incident, which can unfortunately happen in races. What I know for myself is that I would never put any other rider in harm like that on purpose.<\/p>\n

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“There’s a lot of emotion in my head about the situation, and I just wish from my heart to Maxime a speedy recovery and hope I can compete with him for victory again in the future.”<\/p>\n

Van Gils had just begun his second season with Red Bull with a victory in the team time trial during the Mallorca Challenge and third place in the Trofeo Andratx behind teammate Remco Evenepoel.<\/p>\n

Van Gils is still scheduled to compete in the Ardennes Classics in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan Christen (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) has issued a heartfelt apology for causing a crash during the Cl\u00e1sica Ja\u00e9n…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-431104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}