Jumbo-Visma's Steven Kruijswijk out of Tour de France after suffering horror shoulder injury
Steven Kruijswijk is out of the Tour de France after suffering a horror injury of Stage 15. The Jumbo-Visma rider went down with 60km to go in an incident also involving Martijn Tusveld (Team DSM). Ad/> The accident looked severe enough for Wout van Aert to stop and check on his fallen team-mate, who appeared in great distress as he clutched his right arm in what looked like a bad shoulder injury.
Tour de France'He was suffering a lot' — Jumbo boss reveals extent of Roglic injury to abandon Tour35 MINUTES AGO An ambulance was soon on the scene and Kruijswijk was taken away on a stretcher. «He's in a lot of trouble there,» remarked Robbie McEwen on commentary. «Just the fact he's still sitting and he's clutching at his wrist.
»You see his elbow this is going to be, I think, really bad news. 'I need to let my injuries heal' — Roglic withdraws from Tour, Cort and Clarke out with Covid-19 'I find it very strange' — Roglic's decision to abandon Tour and Vingegaard questioned He added: «You can see what a high speed crash that is too, look at the damage to his hip there. They've gone down going fast.
»This is not a low speed sort of innocuous touchdown this is a this is a proper crash and this I'm fearing the worst for Steven Kruijswijk. «When you've seen it a number of times you know that you're in broken collarbone territory.» The injury came just hours after Primoz Roglic was forced to abandon the Tour on a disastrous day for Jumbo-Visma. Things then seemed to get even worse when another Jumbo rider, Tiesj Benoot, touched the wheel of team-mate and yellow jersey holder Jonas Vingegaard and both men went to ground.