Team Visma | Lease a Bike get injured leader on day 1 of the 2025 season - "But we know Dylan is a fighter"
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In 2022 Dylan van Baarle won Paris-Roubaix and finished second at the Tour of Flanders. He was signed by Team Visma | Lease a Bike to be a new leader but has since been affected by countless injuries. On stage 1 of the Tour Down Under, the Dutchman crashed once again and is out of the race with a fracture.
In 2023 van Baarle made his debut with Visma by winning Omloop het Nieuwsblad, but his spring was turned on it's head and he had to miss out on most races. He did participate in Paris-Roubaix, but crashed and fractured a hand and scapula.
In 2024 he looked to make a comeback but this was far from happening, and he only had 20 race days to his name. He was ill during most of the spring after and did not start Paris-Roubaix after feeling unwell.
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The Tour de France became the main goal but he had to miss it after crashing at the Criterium du Dauphiné and fracturing a collarbone. He set sights on La Vuelta but abandoned right on the second day of the race after fracturing his hip in another fall. Because of his early season ending, he decided to start it early in 2025, leading a young lineup at the Tour Down Under. The bad luck followed him across the world as he was involved in the crash inside the final kilometers and once again, fractured a collarbone and was forced to abandon the race.
Dylan van Baarle was involved in a crash in the final kilometers of today's stage. Examinations after the finish line have revealed that he has broken his collar bone and he will not be able to start tomorrow," Visma wrote on a social media post. "This is a tough setback, but we know Dylan is a fighter who will come back stronger than ever. Looking forward to that moment already".
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— Team Visma | Lease a Bike (@vismaleaseabike) January 21, 2025
Dylan van Baarle was involved in a crash in the final kilometers of today's stage. Examinations after the finish line have revealed that he has broken his collar bone and he will not be able to start tomorrow.
This is a tough setback, but we know Dylan is a… pic.twitter.com/BykyJz4OmI
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- Good job! It's been a long road since his accident.1stpastthepost07-02-2025
- Thanks, it wasn’t showing early on, sometimes the site has posting delays, it refreshes very badly and gets confused when people edit. GB really doesn’t want to promote cycling, you see it at every level, maybe drivers are lobbying against making cycling too popular, haha.Mistermaumau07-02-2025
- Everyone wants to grab a slice of pie, hapoened in boxing, happening in golf now, trying to happen in club football. Will we need to add undisputed champion in cycling too one day?Mistermaumau07-02-2025
- see above, I did, not sure why it didn't come as a reply.mij07-02-2025
- she was only riding mountain, a little gravel, a little cross. she didn't do any road riding, so she didn't need a team. it seems they didn't want to build a road team around her.mij07-02-2025
- yeah, there are some sports that do a season long WORLD CUP WINNER, or some version of it, but even most of THOSE also have a World Championships EVENT. cyclocross is in that category (though the value of the world cup is watered down there due to there being THREE separately scored championship series).OCexile07-02-2025
- There are so many different sports, and equally many where this is not the case. Football has all sorts of differing championships. Swimming and Athletics are more like cycling, cyclocross is different again. Track cycling is often like tennis. BMX is more like rowing but in the end it’s hard to name more than a couple of sports that have exactly the same championship qualifying and set-up. Yes, in motorsport you usually have to participate in a long line of yearly events to win a championship but when is the last time you saw a driver do any 2 of F1, Rallye, Nascar etc in a season? Practically impossible so don’t forget, if you want to see the likes of WVA and MVDP or even Pidcock and others in several disciplines, it may not be wise to bog them down into choosing one.Mistermaumau07-02-2025
- Perhaps, or perhaps the UCI should be obliged to provide a minimum number of volunteers for each of the higher categories of races, showing they take the problem of safety a bit seriously when it comes to practical issues?Mistermaumau06-02-2025
- If she was the only rider signed at Ineos, did they even have a team or was she always riding alone? Can someone explain what the situation there please? actually wasMistermaumau06-02-2025
- I was watching the race this morning, and that was an incredibly sketchy moment. Hopefully Maxim van Gils wasn't too seriously injured, and will be able to return to the peloton soon. Perhaps the UCI needs to be handing out yellow cards to race organizers as well.
santiagobenites06-02-2025