{"id":578485,"date":"2026-05-11T18:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578485\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:08:20","slug":"the-sound-of-that-crash-is-going-to-cause-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578485\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe sound of that crash is going to cause nightmares\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\u201cThat sound of the crash will cause some nightmares,\u201d Arensman said on his Strava post-stage<\/a>. \u201cI hope everyone is relatively OK.\u201dINEOS escape as Giro disaster unfolds<\/p>\n

The crash came on wet roads around 25 kilometres from the finish, before the final climb to the Lyaskovets Monastery. It forced a temporary neutralisation and left several teams counting the cost before racing resumed.<\/p>\n

UAE Team Emirates – XRG suffered a disastrous day, with Jay Vine and Marc Soler taken to hospital and Adam Yates later losing major time before abandoning ahead of Stage 3. Santiago Buitrago was also forced out and taken to hospital, while Andrea Vendrame later withdrew with fractures to three transverse processes in his lower back.<\/p>\n

Arensman and Bernal were among those who escaped the incident, and INEOS quickly turned that survival into sporting gain. Bernal collected six bonus seconds at the Red Bull kilometre after the neutralisation, while Arensman took four, lifting both riders into strong early GC positions.<\/p>\n

Arensman, though, was clear that luck had played a major role. \u201cWe were lucky that we were on the right side of the road, but it could just as easily have been otherwise,\u201d he told In de Leiderstrui.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is such a hard sport\u201d<\/p>\n

What made Arensman\u2019s reaction stand out was the focus on the psychological impact of the crash, not only the physical injuries suffered by those who hit the ground.<\/p>\n

Grand Tour riders are conditioned to continue. Stage 2 showed that again, with the peloton restarting and immediately returning to the fight for position before the final climb. But Arensman suggested the emotional effect of hearing and seeing such a crash cannot simply be left behind. \u201cIt is such a hard sport,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you stay on the bike with fear after such a crash, you find yourself at the back in no time and you are finished. You can then pack away your ambitions for the general classification.\u201d<\/p>\n

That line captured the brutal contradiction of the Giro\u2019s second stage. Riders had just seen friends, team-mates and rivals down on the road, yet those still in the race had to switch back into survival mode almost immediately.<\/p>\n

For Arensman, the result was valuable. For the peloton, the damage from Stage 2 may last far beyond the official medical bulletins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThat sound of the crash will cause some nightmares,\u201d Arensman said on his Strava post-stage. \u201cI hope…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,20995,52999,101,108708,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-578485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-ineos-grenadiers","tag-sports","tag-thymen-arensman","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578485","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=578485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}