VIDEO | The crash that has ended Jonas Vingegaard's 2026 Tour de France on stage 15
CyclingSunday, 19 July 2026 at 17:12
The Tour de France is a race of legs, resilience, and many times luck. When a rider does not have it, it can render the work of months meaningless. Jonas Vingegaard has abandoned the Tour de France this Sunday after crashing during stage 15, bringing to an end Team Visma | Lease a Bike's mission to win the Grand Boucle.
This stage had already been heavily marked by the doping tests that had been carried out in the middle of the night to both Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar. The topic had already provided a lot of extra spark to a day where the GC riders were going to go head-to-head on the Plateau de Solaison.
A plan for Visma that didn't come to be
Team Visma | Lease a Bike had planed Bruno Armirail and Victor Campenaerts' in the day's breakaway, both riders were caught after the team chased from behind and pushed pace on the two climbs leading up to Solaison.
The pace set was quite high, but this turned out to be the team's downfall. With 20 kilometers to go the peloton arrived at a tricky section that featured a corner and road furniture. Visma were leading the peloton.
You can see images of the crash and the aftermath in the video below:
A replay of the Jonas Vingegaard crash. The end of his 2026 Tour de France. What a shame. I feel for him. It’s so bloody awful. Damn!#TDF2026 pic.twitter.com/WKRPphxmGd
— René Bugner (@RNBWCV) July 19, 2026
Possible collarbone fracture?
But good positioning does not always see the riders prevent crashes. Jonas Vingegaard went down and hit his shoulder on the sidewalk. The Dane immediately looked in distress and within bare minutes, his withdrawal became obvious.
Vingegaard was carried out of the race in an ambulance, with a suspected fracture in either the collarbone or the shoulder. Several riders of Visma and UAE were involved in the crash, including Isaac del Toro and Felix Grossschartner.
The consequences of the crash will be assessed in the coming hours, and the Dutch team should confirm the injuries of the former Tour de France winner.
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- Exactly. Sweating and urinating are the fastest mechanisms for something in blood and those take 1-4 hrs. So check at 10pm and again check at 6 am. Its easy to catchabstractengineer20-07-2026
- Most recently on Stage 2.Hills3320-07-2026
- The tour organizers screw up again. It was a fast part of the course, a sudden turn. No warning. Only the first few riders would have been able to know it was coming . At this point I believe they want crashes to happencaptmike20-07-2026
- Shhhh, let people have fun 😉 You have fun too
KerisVroom20-07-2026 - I think, like with most other institutions, you’ll find the total costs outweigh the fine. Apart from US lawsuits, corrupt inofficial authorities and maybe Swiss speeding fines to the very rich, it’s usually the general population or if there is a victim, them, that pays the real price, the punishment is mostly arbitrary and the whole implementation often costs more than the fine. This will be especially true if the judge is Swiss with a Swiss salary, swiss paperwork to write up and Swiss rights to contest to have to deal with. It’s actually a no-brainier, 2-3 500 fines a day doesn’t even cover the hours.Mistermaumau20-07-2026
- Yeah, but we’re definitely not all the same there.Mistermaumau20-07-2026
- And why would good reasons be made public so easily or before findings lead to conclusions? People would go apeshyt if controllers started to release statements why they are turning up at 2am. With their knowledge of past practices, it is hardly unexpected this happens from time to time and sorry, it’s been a real long time since it happened, it’s also been a REAL long time since anyone of interest was caught, that is increasing pressure to be seen to be actually checking. Typical doping checks have been so integrated into the routines that people have probably forgotten they exist, new spectators might not even realise they have them.Mistermaumau20-07-2026
- It’s not that simple. This was part of the whole dilemma of deciding to do the Tour or not. Once you’ve accepted you’ve committed to do media work and you have to be very careful about how, when and to who you decide to opt out. The media makes you but can also break you and it’s pretty risky to set your own rules before you’re established enough to negotiate with many of them. Also, in this day and age you’re also kind of obliged to go in order to control the narrative. If you don’t show up you’re basically giving everyone a blank check to write whatever they feel like and that can increase external pressure even more than doing post-race com work. Best thing is to prepare riders on how to deal with it and cope. Someone who can’t has a handicap to reach the top.Mistermaumau20-07-2026
- It would be interesting to add up the total value of the fines after the tour is finished. I think the amount the UCI make from fines would be surprisingCyclingsbestfan20-07-2026
- I don't think it makes a difference on Seixas being a French rider, it makes a difference for the test-times tho if anyone could've been tested..
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