{"id":626496,"date":"2026-06-07T20:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626496\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T20:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:32:11","slug":"wout-van-aert-crashed-in-training-before-tour-auvergne-rhone-alpes-as-he-sports-knee-and-elbow-bandages-at-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626496\/","title":{"rendered":"Wout van Aert crashed in training before Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes as he sports knee and elbow bandages at start"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sporting bandages before the opening stage, a battered van Aert admitted that he hit the ground while training on his time trial bike on Monday – unexpectedly losing control of his handlebars as he claimed the moment of “inattention” caused the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fell during training on Monday, I can\u2019t hide that,\u201d he told Sporza<\/a> before the start of the first stage of the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes. \u201cIt was due to a moment of inattention, my own fault. I was training on the time trial bike when I suddenly lost control of my handlebars and ended up on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, despite it being a setback before a tough week of racing in preparation for July’s Grand Depart in Barcelona, van Aert insisted he arrived to race and his injuries won’t hold him back. He confirmed: \u201cOtherwise I wouldn’t be at the start here. I don’t think it will bother me much.\u201d<\/p>\n

It’s a brutal week of racing for the non-climbers in the south-east of France, with just a handful of stages favourable for the faster or more versatile riders, van Aert knows the window to strike is slim in his pursuit of stage victories.<\/p>\n

He concluded: \u201cThere won\u2019t be many opportunities for non-climbers. But there are a few tough stages where the finish is a bit flatter. That\u2019s where I can take my chance in the sprint or with a breakaway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Aert is joined by a returning Matteo Jorgenson with Visma also bringing Edoardo Affini, Bruno Armirail, Per Strand Hagenes, Jorgen Nordhagen and Ben Tullett in a squad packed with experience and strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sporting bandages before the opening stage, a battered van Aert admitted that he hit the ground while training…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,36242,209408,56,54,55,8783],"class_list":["post-626496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-team-visma-lease-a-bike","tag-tour-auvergne-rhone-alpes","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wout-van-aert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626496","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=626496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}