Lotto-Soudal riders Thomas De Gendt and Gert Dockx are in hospital after being involved in a collision with the car. The Belgian team posted on Twitter confirming the accident and said that there were no life threatening injuries.
The pair have both undergone initial examinations but will have further tests in Belgium to establish the extent of their injuries. The circumstances of the accident are not clear but Lotto-Soudal say that it happened during a training ride in Spain. Dockx was due to ride Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in just over a week, it is not known if his injuries will prevent him from doing so.
The accident is the latest in a line of collisions involving riders and cars. Most recently, Australian rider Annette Edmondson collided with a car while training in Australia. Fortunately, she avoided any serious injury and is still on course to ride at the Track World Championships next month.
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Giant-Alpecin were not as lucky when their team was decimated by a driver traveling on the wrong side of the road while they were training in Calpe, Spain. The crash saw Warren Barguil, John Degenkolb, Chad Haga, Fredrik Ludvigsson, Ramon Sinkeldam and Max Walscheid all suffer injuries, some worse than others. Haga and Degenkolb were the worst affected, with Haga spending several days in hospital and Degenkolb almost losing his finger.
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