Updated Friday, April 5, 2024 – 17:34
The Spanish cyclist Mikel Landa suffers a fractured clavicle, as reported by his team, Soudal Quick-Step, in a message on the social network X. Landa was evacuated from the Return to the Basque Country at noon this Friday after a collective fall in the fifth stage, just one day after the grave accident caused by Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoelamong others, ended up in the hospital.
According to the images, Landa had left the test in an ambulance, on a stretcher and with a neck brace. The statement from her team details that, already in the hospital, x-rays have confirmed the clavicle fracture. Her teammate Gil Gelders, who has also retired, has been treated for abrasions suffered in contact with the road. Others affected have been Gonzalo Serrano and Pelayo Sanchez (Movistar).
Landa was second in the Vuelta al Pais Vasco last year and in 2018, a position he repeated after Tadej Pogacar in the Vuelta a Catalua, in March.
On Thursday the current double winner of the Tour de France, Vingegaard, was involved in a violent everyalong with two other prominent names in the peloton such as Evenepoel and Primoz Roglic, among the eight affected cyclists.
Vingegaard suffers a pneumothorax, a lung contusion and fractures in a clavicle and in several ribs. Evenepoelwhose goal is to debut in the Tour in three months and fight for victory, suffered fractures in a shoulder blade and a clavicle. Roglic He was the best stopped, with wounds and bruises, but he did not continue in the race either.
Gravity falls are marking the European cycling spring. The Belgian Wout Van Aert He crashed last week in the Across Flanders race, suffering fractures that prevented him from participating in the Tour of Flanders and Pars-Roubaix this Sunday.
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