VIDEO: Wout van Aert out of 2024 Vuelta a Espana after second crash of the day on stage 16
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For the second time of the day, Wout van Aert has hit the deck hard on stage 16 at the 2024 Vuelta a Espana.
After having bounced back up from his first crash to get himself into the day's breakaway, Van Aert took maximum points at each of the first two categorised climbs. On a wet and slippery descent however, the Team Visma | Lease a Bike star crashed and went hard into a gutter alongside Felix Engelhardt and Isaac del Toro.
Sadly, especially his excellent form and with the World Championships in mind, things do not look good and his abandon has now sadly been confirmed. See the incident for yourself down below!
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Sorry to see WVA out of the race with a nasty looking crash. He had Green jersey won and the only thing to go in the break today for was mountain points. A compettion he was very unlikley to win. I wish he could turn back the clock and make a different decision.
Very sorry to see this. The most colorful, daring, nicest cyclist out of the race. Bah. Wish him a quick recovery. You're the best, Wout!
Too much crashes... today (IMHO) he took an unnecessary risk: he had won almost all the points then maybe he could have descended very cautiously. After all, Forza, Wout! get well soon!
Wout's knee did not look very good when he decided to call it quits. Hopefully he's incurred no serious damage, but it looks like his season is most likely over.
So unfair. Hope he didnt break anything, but the same I thought in March.
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- They are surprisingly rare on the pro circuit, around our area, one in four races finishes of with a really steep 500m climb at the end.Mistermaumau14-03-2025
- Give him an uphill sprint, then he may win against pure sprinters.
KerisVroom14-03-2025 - Sad if confirmed but like Tadej, he’ll be happy it didn’t turn out to be a disaster. Curious to know how it happened uphill.Mistermaumau13-03-2025
- Jonas anandons tomorrow. He was saying farewell to teammates and staff at the finish lineCaralladas13-03-2025
- And considering the details coming out, I’d like to hear from all those mocking his annoyance of having to ride in yesterday’s weather, don’t think they’d have ridden to the end that way with a probable broken hand. Also, he was only one of a very large number equally critical that NOBODY criticised, including Jorgenson, Sheffield and the peleton spokesman. O’connor was probably the most upset by it all but doesn’t seem to have spoken about it?Mistermaumau13-03-2025
- I was wondering what really happened, if he was just not yet peaking at this time of the year, or if this just wasn't going to be his year, but apparently the accident affected him.Ride197413-03-2025
- There is good in everyone. Hitler was kind to his dog wasn't he?Cyclingsbestfan13-03-2025
- We all hope it, like parents, but those type of children only learn from their own mistakes ;-) Yeah, feel lucky I heal pretty fast, even at advanced age but we don’t really get to see how things look under their clothes. For sure they have better pain killers but I don’t ever remember feeling much pain when in a state to ride on, the adrenaline seems to just focus on that one objective. Later is another thing, I once (only time ever) fainted in the shower an hour post accident when trying to clean a wound, luckily another rider who’d witnessed it had sacrificed himself not to leave my side.Mistermaumau13-03-2025
- Yep. But if you hit something stationary at 40 mph, your life is changed. And even just sliding ... the fastest I ever crashed was 35 mph in a race, and it was almost 2 months before the last scabs disappeared. These guys heal much faster, but the pain is the same. I am hoping P is more careful so that he has a long career that ends when he decides. But he doesn't seem built that way.
Barney13-03-2025 - He’s lucky Mohoriç warned him not to follow (and that for once he listened to wiser) because the way M only just avoided disaster that day, T would have done a Senna. Regarding the 40mph, it’s not usually hitting the deck that’s crucial, it’s acrobatics and stationary objects that refuse to move much that do the damage.Mistermaumau13-03-2025