Two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard will miss the remainder of season as he continues his restoration from a damaged collarbone sustained on this 12 months’s race.
On stage 15, the 29-year-old Visma-Lease a Bike rider was tackling a good right-hand bend off a roundabout when his entrance wheel slid out, inflicting him to land on his shoulder.
The harm required surgical procedure and dominated the Dane out of difficult for a 3rd Tour victory, with Tadej Pogacar occurring to win a report equalling fifth yellow jersey.
Vingegaard will likely be absent from September’s UCI Street World Championships in Montreal, Canada, when Pogacar will go for a 3rd straight world title.
“After a protracted and intense racing interval, a restoration interval was deliberate after the Tour de France anyway,” Vingegaard mentioned.
“Because of the collarbone harm, the beginning of my coaching has been delayed and it isn’t potential for me to get again to prime stage within the coming interval.
“The main focus is on making ready optimally for the targets of the 2027 season. I’ll focus on these particular targets with the workforce within the coming interval.”
Vingegaard gained the Giro d’Italia earlier this season to grow to be solely the eighth male rider to win all three Grand Excursions – the Tour, Giro and Vuelta a Espana.
His crash got here on the day that Remco Evenepoel criticised the “inhuman” nature of the doping assessments carried out within the early hours that morning on the Tour, with Vingegaard woken at 02:00 and Pogacar at 05:00 native time for assessments.
Marc Reef, Visma-Lease a Bike’s head of racing, indicated that the variety of race days that Vingegaard had already accomplished in 2026 performed an element within the choice to finish his season.
“As introduced in the beginning of the season, we might take inventory of the remaining a part of the season after the Tour de France,” he added.
“After a busy interval with many days of racing and the collarbone fracture Jonas sustained within the Tour de France, it’s best for him to deal with 2027.
“Along with Jonas, we are going to take a look at the appropriate coaching build-up and targets for the brand new 12 months over the approaching weeks.”