Wout van Aert broke his collarbone and several ribs in a serious crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen 2024 on Wednesday. Visma | Lease a Bike, the Belgian's team, wrote this on Wednesday evening on X (formerly Twitter).
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Wout van Aert misses spring classics Tour of Flanders & Paris-Roubaix
It is not yet clear how long the 29-year-old will be out for. What is certain, however, is that he will be Tour of Flanders the coming weekend and Paris-Roubaix will miss its major season highlights on 7 April.
Van Aert was involved in a mass crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen 68 kilometres before the finishThe race also saw the Danish classics specialist Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) and Biniam Girmay (Intermarche-Wanty) crash. Van Aert's team-mate Matteo Jorgenson took the victory in the Tour of Flanders, beating Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility) and Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ) into second and third place.
