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Wunderkind flew out over the bridge

Remco Evenepoel was Saturday suffered a terrible crash in the cycling Lombardy Around. The 20-year-old belgian was together with Jakob Fuglsang in the forefro

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Wunderkind flew out over the bridge

Remco Evenepoel was Saturday suffered a terrible crash in the cycling Lombardy Around.

The 20-year-old belgian was together with Jakob Fuglsang in the forefront of the tradition-rich race, when he crashed on the way down the technically difficult descent from the Muro di Sormano.

In a left turn twisting road at a bridge, and Deceuninck-Quick-Step rider could not reach right up.

Therefore, he flew directly out over the side of the bridge and several meters down in a ravine.

On the Italian tv, it was quickly reported that Evenepoel was conscious, and he was shortly after carried into an ambulance fixed on a stretcher.

In 2017 was the same descent framework for multiple similar crash. Here smoke both Jan Bakelandts, Simone Petilli and Laurens De Plus over the railing.

Bakelandts was the worst included, as he broke four vertebrae and four ribs.

Remco Evenepoel, is been touted as the new Eddy Merckx because of his fresh way to run and win the race at. In the years he has won etapeløbene Poland, Vuelta a Burgos, Volta ao Algarve and the Vuelta a San Juan.

You can follow the rest of the race live here

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Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix

Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix

Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix

Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix

Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix

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