{"id":435978,"date":"2026-02-20T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435978\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:05:10","slug":"jakobsen-crashes-heavily-as-tyre-insert-blown-off-mini-hook-rims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435978\/","title":{"rendered":"Jakobsen crashes heavily as tyre, insert blown off mini hook rims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/xMilan-Jonathan-sprint-cycling-agency-UAE-Tour--1200x800.jpg.pagespeed.ic.vHttagneEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204267\"  \/>Jonathan Milan celebrates his stage win into Fujairah at UAE Tour, with Ethan Vernon \u2013 being led out by Ryan Mullen \u2013 takes 2nd place (Photo: Luca Bettini-Sprint Cycling Agency)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jonathan Milan (Lidl Trek) won stage 4 of UAE Tour into Fujairah in a bunch sprint, taking victory from Ethan Vernon (NSN Cycling Team) \u2013 led out by Ireland\u2019s Ryan Mullen. The stage winner\u2019s kid brother, Matteo Milan (Groupama-FDJ United), was 3rd on a day of no change in the overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">However, while Milan emerged the victor, it was another sprinter who generated a lot of headlines, and for the wrong reasons. The very unfortunate Fabio Jakobsen (Picnic PostNL), who suffered a horrendous crash at Tour de Pologne in 2020, hit the deck hard again today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This time the Dutch rider, thankfully, had no life-threatening injuries, though he was cut to pieces and his kit shredded after coming down hard with just under 30km to go. He appeared to hit a stone, with his front type and foam insert coming off the rim, and wrapping around his bike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He was using the Ursus ARYA R 50 Team Edition wheels, which are described as having a\u00a0\u2018mini-hook\u2019 rim profile. The bunch appeared to be riding at speed, on a wide road, when the TV cameras picked out Jakobsen crashed on the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A number of other riders came down, including Ethan Hayter (Soudal QuickStep) and Daan Hoole (Decathlon CMA CGM Team), who managed to finish the stage, as did Jakobsen. However, one of the fallers \u2013 Robbe Ghys (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) was a non-finisher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ireland\u2019s Eddie Dunbar (Pinarello Q36.5) and Mullen both finished in the bunch ahead of tomorrow\u2019s stage 5, which takes the riders 168km, on flat terrain, to Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">La dura ca\u00edda con Jakobsen y Hayter implicados en la que la bicicleta acab\u00f3 completamente destrozada y con el tubolito fuera.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UAETour?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#UAETour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dcd2xpQBda\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dcd2xpQBda<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eurosport.es (@Eurosport_ES) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eurosport_ES\/status\/2024465872744538535?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Milan makes it look easy \ud83e\udd29\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>The breakaway almost stays away at the UAE Tour before Jonathan Milan does his thing in the sprint \ud83d\udca8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/crQYGGfUF1\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/crQYGGfUF1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cycling on TNT Sports (@cyclingontnt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cyclingontnt\/status\/2024473411016163636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonathan Milan celebrates his stage win into Fujairah at UAE Tour, with Ethan Vernon \u2013 being led out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-435978","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\/435978","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=435978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}