Lucas Sáez-Bravo
Updated Thursday, April 4, 2024-16:59
The Olaeta platoon disdained, in pursuit of the six escapees of the day, in the nervousness prior to the resolution of the stage, the fourth of Itzulia between Etxarri Aranatz and Legutio, with 36 kilometers and a couple of mountain passes remaining. A deadly curve, a trap into which, one by one, all those who led the group fell. Suddenly, the drama. A fall that, without knowing the consequences, radically changes the panorama of the cycling year.
The wounded were piled up in the ditch. Among them, the favorites. The most worrying,
Jonas Vingegaard
, motionless for minutes, who was left on a stretcher, with a neck brace, on the way to the hospital. Also
Remco Evenepoel
, who did it on his own foot, with his collarbone affected. And
Primoz Roglic
, with bruises.