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Remco Evenepoel is being treated in hospital after crashing into a postal vehicle while training in his native Belgium.
Evenepoel is said to have ridden into the door of a Bpost vehicle in Oetingen, 15 miles west of Brussels, and landed hard on the ground. The double Olympic champion was conscious but suffered a suspected arm injury, and was loaded into an ambulance before being taken to hospital in Anderlecht.
Images showed his gold coloured bike lying on the road with the frame snapped in half.
“We are still on our way, but we don’t know much more ourselves,” said his father, Patrick Evenepoel, to Het Nieuwsblad.
“He was taken to the Erasmus hospital in Anderlecht under the supervision of an MUG [Medical Urgency Group] team. He has already sent us a message, so we hope everything is OK. From what I hear, he fell after colliding with the swinging door of a Bpost truck.”
Noooooo 😢
Remco Evenepoel unfortunately has had an accident during his training ride, HLN reports a collision with a postal vehicle. He has been taken to hospital.
📷: Nieuwsblad pic.twitter.com/KaE95UsmlC
— Lukáš Ronald Lukács (@lucasaganronald) December 3, 2024
From the Remco Evenepoel crash place, Remco was unable to avoid an opening car door from the postal vehicle and the doctors said it can be broken shoulder and broken wrist.
Thank you my friend Glenn Verlaecke for the info and photo. pic.twitter.com/bwM7bciF5y
— Lukáš Ronald Lukács (@lucasaganronald) December 3, 2024
The 24-year-old is one of the best road racers in the world and enjoyed a stunning summer, finishing on the podium of the Tour de France before clinching emphatic gold in both the time trial and road race at the Paris Olympics. However he and the rest of the peloton were powerless to stop Tadej Pogacar from surging to World Championship glory in September.
Evenepoel, who rides for Belgian team Soudal Quick-Step, is expected to make a bid for the Giro d’Italia in May, the grand tour which Pogacar is least likely to race in 2025. But injury could now disrupt his winter training programme ahead of the new season.
