{"id":500196,"date":"2026-03-28T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500196\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:20:07","slug":"volta-a-catalunya-tom-pidcock-out-of-race-after-horror-fall-down-ravine-on-stage-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500196\/","title":{"rendered":"Volta a Catalunya: Tom Pidcock out of race after &#8216;horror&#8217; fall down ravine on stage five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After medical checks Pidcock was ruled out of the remainder of the race, which ends on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Team doctor Lorenz Emmert said: &#8220;Due to his crash he suffered injuries, most likely bone and ligament damage in particular to his right knee and also right wrist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Unfortunately we had to make the decision to take him out of the race. Further clinical evaluation and imaging will follow in the next days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pidcock won Milano-Torino and finished second in Milan-San Remo by world champion Tadej Pogacar this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We did everything to try to make it to the start [of stage six] but it&#8217;s not possible,&#8221; said two-time Olympic cross-country mountain bike champion Pidcock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I fought to finish the stage yesterday to make sure I had the option to continue. Now the focus is on recovery, and I&#8217;ll be back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Team Visma-Lease a Bike&#8217;s Vingegaard won the stage by 51 seconds to extend his lead in the general classification to 57.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After medical checks Pidcock was ruled out of the remainder of the race, which ends on Sunday. Team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-500196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500196","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=500196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}