“These images are difficult to see,” breathes Sepp Kuss, winner of the last Vuelta. Same view from the sky and from this camera attached to a helicopter which films the roads of the Basque Country, the road exit is impressive. Scary even. The peloton is spinning, 35 km from the finish of this fourth stage of the Spanish race between Etxarri-Aranatz and Legutio, when one, two, three riders, and soon more, spin down the side of the road, crashing here between the trees, there in a ditch which runs along the route.
Among them, Jonas Vingegaard, the winner of the last two Tours de France. Victim of a collarbone and several broken ribs, the Dane from Visma-Lease a Bike is one of the riders affected by this enormous fall of a day on Thursday which turned into a massacre for other favorites of the Grande Boucle: a fracture of the clavicle and scapula for Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) and the abandonment of Primoz Roglic (Bora-Hansgrohe).
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