Itzulia Basque Country 2024, April 1-6

[Danskebjerge]

So? That’s irrelevant to the fact that crap happens and favorites get taken out- and in 2014 Contador and Froome were every bit as dominant that season as anyone this year.

Lol, Froome didn't win a single one day race in 2014. Nor did Contador. Not even a podium.

 

[Samamba]

Vingegaard is concious

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Just came home to this. Don’t know what to think. First time I’m not even gonna rewatch the race.

It's horrific...I don't know how I will even watch any race after the week and a half we've had.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

This race for the breakaway is a bit like the sprint in cross-country skiing and this is a racing format I‘ve thought about a few times. Interested to see how it plays out

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Vingegaard is concious

Any news on Vine?

 

[Samamba]

Any news on Vine?

UAE already tweeted he's concious and talking.

Total also said Cras (the Total rider that looked bad) is concious.

 

[Tour de Berghem]

Any news on Vine?

He is conscious and speak. source: UAE on X

 

[Sciatic]

That corner was the last in a series of sweeping turns before a short straightaway section. I wonder if the arc of that last bend was tighter than the others and thus easy to misjudge. I crashed (more like slid out) on the very last of a long series of switchbacks because the final turn had a different arc. Definitely pilot error, but also had to anticipate.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

He is conscious and speak. source: UAE on X

That's great news! From what I saw (I stopped watching because I couldn't stand anymore pictures of riders motionless), he looked to be in serous condition.

 

[MotorRouleur]

Moments before, they did a right-hand curve which was even tighter. But the road at the crash site appears to be off-camber. There are un-paved driveways next to it, so the tires of a tractor or truck could've spread mud which dries into dust.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

At the very front the Trek guy slid out first ..in front of him Remco jumped a boulder (?) and went through 2 trees before sliding on to his side and over handlebars before stopping...behind the Trek guy a UAE rider went straight to a boulder and went over it

Further back a separate group of Visma and EF came down independently of the front guys

but thankfully they are all talking and conscious in ambulance

 

[armchairclimber]

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I had the same problem earlier on ..go to bottom right and select language .ie english

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[Unchained]

One thing is for sure between all of us internet professional bike racers and the actual item, Spanish roads are some of the most reconned in all of cycling, the country is home for many teams and training ground for teams based elsewhere, this race is heavy on Spanish conti squads and it's guaranteed that almost everyone is familiar or semi familiar with the road conditions.
Saying anything about excessive dangerous conditions is silly, and real on the ground conditions could have been way way worse w the race seeing rain and hale earlier. Spain is a cycling paradise, give or take crashing into a cement drainage culvert. Many of the guys in the ditch probably rode up and down this road before, or one identical to it.

 

[Ricco']

Watching again the replay, Remco's bike wobbled even before the Lidl rider started to crash, before he crossed the line between the left and right halfs of the road.

Whatever injury he might have, Remco is to me by far the luckiest today. If his wheels veered right instead of left after he landed from his hop, he would probably went head or chest first against the tree trunk.

 

[red_flanders]

Looks like maybe a Lidl-Trek rider hit Remco's wheel from behind...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775898915625402397

Looks like he broke his collarbone on that initial bounce.

 

[Stasat]

But these weren’t obstacles in the road, they were solid objects immediately off the side. They should have had some barrier or padding at that arc of the turn, but riders still could have hit the concrete ditch, trees, and big boulders. How many alpine descents have boulders, jagged rocks, and 200 meter drop offs just off the apex of the corner?

They did but it was a few metres before the crash unfortunately

https://imgur.com/a/cHN1hgo

View: https://imgur.com/a/cHN1hgo

 

[Volderke]

I wonder if Remco took himself down to avoid hitting a tree? I had to do that once to avoid going over the side of a wooden bridge.

He jumped the whole ditch but landed unstabilized.

 

[Sciatic]

I wonder if Remco took himself down to avoid hitting a tree? I had to do that once to avoid going over the side of a wooden bridge.

That’s what it looked like to me. I’ve done that enough times on cross country skies when I knew I couldn’t make a downhill turn.

 

[repre]

I don't want to say this but this year Tour de France is over

I think it was over with Vingo, i am not happy he got injured and wish him well, but without him tdf actually just got started and will be more competitive

 

[Ricco']

Looks like maybe a Lidl-Trek rider hit Remco's wheel from behind...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775898915625402397

Looks like he broke his collarbone on that initial bounce.

What Mihai is suggesting is impossible, imo.

Judging by the head-on camera, in every frame there is enough space between Remco and any rider around him at any time before the Lidl Trek rider crash, to say something like that.

 

[Volderke]

Looks like maybe a Lidl-Trek rider hit Remco's wheel from behind...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775898915625402397

Looks like he broke his collarbone on that initial bounce.

I'm pretty sure there was no contact.

Remco was braking hard on his rear wheel while going over those tree roots, trying to make the curve this way. You can see his rear wheel moving erroneously. The Trek rider tried, at the same time, to round the curve without braking too much, resulting in his front wheel sliding out.

 

[AI_Trek]

I think it was over with Vingo, i am not happy he got injured and wish him well, but without him tdf actually just got started and will be more competitive

Tadji just won

 

[kingjr]

Credit to Kruijswijk by the way, who after checking on Vingegaard went and checked out all the other riders in that spot as well.

 

[Lexman]

Visma tweeted that Vingegaard is conscious ...

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Somewhere in the Sierra Nevada the first and second at the Giro and the Tour are training together