His fall during the fifth stage, Thursday, was right for the Paris-Nice of Jonas Vingegaard. The Danish cyclist of La Visma-Lease A Bike will not take the start of the sixth stage of the “Race Au Soleil”, his team announced on Friday, March 14. “Our medical staff decided that he was better for him that he recovers (…) at home and focuses on his next goals ”details Dutch training in a press release.
The double winner of the Tour de France (2022 and 2023) suffers from a contusion in the left hand. He fell, Thursday, in the coast of Trier (Rhône), halfway through, according to a photographer from the France-Presse (AFP) agency on site-the television retransmission had not yet started.
After a passage through the medical car, the runner, who then wore the yellow leader’s yellow jersey in the general classification, quickly returned to the peloton, with the blood in blood. On arrival, images showed him grimacing and unable to remove his glove on his own, letting fear a fracture.
Matteo Jorgenson yellow jersey
At the end of this fifth stage, where he finished 16e Fitting on the last kilometer, it was his American teammate Matteo Jorgenson, winner out of Paris-Nice, who recovered the leader’s tunic. Jonas Vingegaard finished second general, twenty-two seconds late Thursday evening.
The 28 -year -old Danish, who was playing the event for the second time, had finished 3e From the 2023 edition. Before trying to take revenge on Tadej Pogacar (winner of Paris-Nice two years ago) on the roads of the Tour de France from July 5, it is expected on the Volta Ciclista in Catalunya (from March 24 to 30) and the Critérium du Dauphiné (from June 8 to 15).