Jonas Vingegaard, Team Visma: “There are fractures, but he is conscious.”

Update on Jonas Vingegaard’s condition

Just hours after the nasty crash at the Tour of the Basque Country involving, among others, Jonas Vingegaard, Team Visma-Lease a Bike, for which the Dane is racing from 2019, updated fans and insiders on the 27-year-old’s condition, confirming that he sufferedìto fractures but è conscious.

"He had a bad crash in the fourth stage of the Tour of the Basque Country, but fortunately è stable and conscious,” reads the official channels of the Dutch team. “Tests at the hospital revealed that he has a broken collarbone and several fractured ribs. He remains in the hospital as a precautionary measure. Thank you for all the messages of support".

The incident è occurred during the fourth stage of the Basque land race, starting in Etxarri Aranatz and finishing in Legutio. Along with Vingegaard, Primoz Roglic (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) fell, also forced to retire immediately. Roglic suffered several abrasions, Evenepoel a fractured collarbone.

The serious crash caused the stage to be neutralized: the jury then decided to let the six breakaways in the lead contest it (for the record, the success è went to South African Louis Meintjes of Intermarché-Wanty), leaving the rest of the peloton to slowly reach the finish line.