Jumbo-Visma double blow as Steven Kruijswijk out of Tour de France with horror injury as Jonas Vingegaard also crashes

ByIbrahim Mustapha

Updated 18/07/2022 at 08:07 GMT

After the news that Primoz Roglic had to abandon the Tour de France, things went from bad to worse for Jumbo-Visma after Steven Kruijswijk suffered a serious injury to his shoulder after a crash and Jonas Vingegaard also hit the deck. Stream the Tour de France live and on-demand on discovery+. You can also watch all the action live on eurosport.co.uk.

Steven Kruijswijk is out of the Tour de France after suffering a horror injury of Stage 15, on a day Jumbo-Visma team-mate and race leader Jonas Vingegaard also hit the deck.

Dutchman Kruijswijk went down with 60km to go in an incident also involving Martijn Tusveld (Team DSM) and Jakob Fuglsang (Israel-Premier Tech).

The accident looked severe enough for Wout van Aert to stop and check on his fallen team-mate, who appeared in great distress as he clutched his right arm in what looked like a bad shoulder injury.

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An ambulance was soon on the scene and Kruijswijk was taken away on a stretcher.

"He's in a lot of trouble there," remarked Robbie McEwen on commentary. "Just the fact he's still sitting and he's clutching at his wrist.

"You see his elbow this is going to be, I think, really bad news.

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He added: "You can see what a high speed crash that is too, look at the damage to his hip there. They've gone down going fast.

"This is not a low speed sort of innocuous touchdown this is a this is a proper crash and this I'm fearing the worst for Steven Kruijswijk.

"When you've seen it a number of times you know that you're in broken collarbone territory."

The injury came just hours after Primoz Roglic was forced to abandon the Tour on a disastrous day for Jumbo-Visma.

Things then seemed to get even worse when another Jumbo rider, Tiesj Benoot, touched the wheel of team-mate and yellow jersey holder Vingegaard and both men went to ground.

Thankfully both were soon back up showing little sign of any serious injury, but there are concerns about the level of support Vingegaard will receive for the remainder of the race with so many injuries.

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