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Jonas Wingegaard crashed out of the Tour de France, breaking his collarbone in a crash that caused riders to land on spectators.
Belgium’s Remco won the 15th stage at Evenpoel, two-time winner Vingegaard – seen as the only real threat to defending champion and yellow jersey wearer Tadez Pogacar – was tackling a tight right-hand turn from a roundabout when his front wheel slipped, forcing him to land.
The concertina impact sent three other riders over the wingguard and into spectators standing outside the corner, with Pogakkar’s UAE Team Emirates-XRG Team-Mexico Isaac del Toro landing on a woman sitting on crutches.
According to a team statement, the Danish winger will undergo surgery “in the coming days due to the severity of the fracture”.
Wingard’s teammates Sep Kuss of the United States and Joy Hindley of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe of Australia were also involved, but continued.
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe’s Evenpoel unexpectedly won the stage after staying with Pogacker and then powering away from del Toro.
Evenpoel is widely regarded as the third-best rider in the world for overall ability thanks to his peak time trial ability, but generally suffers on steep climbs.
But on Sunday’s 183.9km unclassified final climb of the stage from Champagnole to the Plateau de Solaison, he met Pogacar for the first time in such parkour.
Evenpoel is favorite to win stage 16 on Tuesday – a 26.1km time trial near Thonon-les-Bains.
“I’m shaking with emotion,” Evenpoel said later. “It was tough in the beginning, but I got better during the day.
“You have to understand I’m the best guy (Pogacar) ever raced and it’s a big step for me that I can follow this pace. I always say to a lot of critics: ‘You can’t survive the steep climbs.’ So that means a lot.”
Pogacar remains in the overall leader’s yellow jersey, five minutes ahead of Evenpoel, who is a further 58 seconds ahead of Del Toro.
Pinarello-Q36.5’s Britain’s Tom Pidcock was in contention for the win throughout much of the stage as he was part of an earlier breakaway group that ran out the Category One Col de la Croisette climb, with Lidl-Trek’s American ‘hipster rider’ Quinn Simmons taking the day’s Super-Combatie award.
Decathlon-CMA CGM’s France’s young sensation Paul Sexus fought to keep up with the leaders, but lost the white jersey in the youth category after finishing fourth, 52 seconds behind Del Toro.
The king of the mountain returned to Jersey Pogac after Soudal-Quik Step’s Valentin Perret-Paintre dropped to 79th.
Denmark’s Mads Pedersen holds the green points jersey.
