Lars van der Haar ended his race early at the Superprestige Ruddervoorde on Sunday, fearing an injury in his upper leg with a MRI scan revealing the Giant-Alpecin rider will now "out of competition for unknown amount of time", according to his post on Twitter.
The Dutchman has already had an injury interrupted 2016-17 'cross season, with a hamstring injury seeing him miss the opening CrossVegas and Jingle Cross World Cup rounds in September. Van der Haar was aiming to continue his comeback in November and had started to string together a consistent run of results until the latest injury.
Speaking with NOS, van der Haar provided a more concrete diagnosis, explaining that he faces "eight to twelve weeks of no competition".
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The injury also means that van der Haar has raced his last race in Giant-Alpecin colours as he moves to Sven Nys' Telenet-Fidea team from January 1.
"I worked so hard to get back to a level. Now I can still hope for January and February, but that's it. It's not nice for a team if they get a rider who is not fit," he added.
The next round of the 'cross world cup takes place in Bieles, Luxembourg over the weekend of January 28-29.
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