“The road will be long”, warns Remco Evenepoel the day after his accident

The Belgian Olympic champion was hit by a vehicle on Tuesday during a training session.

“The return begins now (…). The road will be long”. Remco Evenepoel published a long message on his X account (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, December 4, the day after the road accident which took him to hospital. “After a scary accident yesterday in training, I had surgery last night and everything went well”posted, from his hospital bed, the runner of the Soudal Quick-Step team.

He suffered multiple fractures to his ribs, shoulder blade, hand, a contusion to his lungs and a dislocation of his right clavicle, damaging the surrounding ligaments. Not enough to dampen the motivation of the double 2024 Olympic champion: “I am fully focused on my recovery and I am determined to come back stronger, step by step”writes the one who will celebrate his 25th birthday on January 25.

The double Olympic champion of Paris 2024 has not been spared from falls since the start of his career, the most serious having occurred during the Tour of Lombardy in 2020, in the descent of the Mur de Sormano. After a plunge of around ten meters into the void, he suffered a major fracture of the pelvis and damage to his lungs. This year, at the beginning of April, he was caught in a heavy collective fall during the Tour of the Basque Country, already fracturing his collarbone and right shoulder blade.