Steven Kruijswijk had to give up on Sunday in the Tour de France. The Dutchman from Jumbo-Visma crashed hard in the fifteenth stage and was unable to continue.
Kruijswijk crashed a little more than 60 kilometers from the finish and remained on the asphalt. The 35-year-old Jumbo-Visma rider grabbed his shoulder and shook no at his teammate Wout van Aert, who was standing at the crash.
The Dutchman Martijn Tusveld (Team DSM) and the Dane Jakob Fuglsang (Israel-Premier Tech) had also fallen, but they were able to continue on their way. Kruijswijk was eventually taken to hospital on a stretcher.
Kruijswijk was thirteenth in the general classification. He was more than seventeen minutes behind his teammate and jersey wearer Jonas Vingegaard.
Roglic no longer started in the fifteenth stage
It is already the second assignment of the day for Jumbo-Visma. Slovenian leader Primoz Roglic did not start in the fifteenth stage. In a fall in the first week he suffered several abrasions and he had to put his shoulder back in the socket on the spot. As a result, Roglic was not riding at the peak of his ability.
Kruijswijk was working on his seventh Tour de France. In 2019, the climber achieved his best result in the French cycling round with third place in the final standings.
The fifteenth stage in the Tour takes the peloton on Sunday over 202.5 kilometers from Rodez to Carcassonne. Vingegaard has a lead of 2 minutes and 22 seconds on number two Tadej Pogacar in the general classification.
