Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Tuesday December 3, 2024 at 12:47 p.m.
Remco Evenepoel (24) was hospitalized on Tuesday after hitting a car during a training outing. The double Belgian Olympic champion from the Soudal Quick-Step team, conscious when he got into the ambulance, will soon undergo examinations which should reveal more about his condition.
Remco Evenepoel in turn paid the price for the dangers of the road for an out-of-competition cyclist. This Tuesday morning, the young 24-year-old Belgian champion hit a car near the town of Oetingen (located in the province of Flemish Brabant) while he was on a training outing, Het Laaste Nieuws tells us. A shock with this vehicle obviously belonging to the local Post Office, according to the daily, which would have proved violent enough to force the double gold medalist of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to be hospitalized. The newspaper, which reviews the circumstances of the accident, was apparently surprised by an open door, which he was unable to avoid after seeing it at the last moment, while he was driving alone and at full speed. . According to witnesses present on the scene and cited by The Latest NewsEvenepoel would have been wrapped in a blanket while waiting for help to arrive, called in an emergency.
Evenepoel's bike frame cut in two!
The rider of the Soudal Quick-Step team, winner of the Tour of Spain in 2022 and third in the last Tour de France in which he finished best young person, then boarded the ambulance which quickly arrived on site. Our colleagues, always repeating the different testimonies, assure that Evenepoel, who remained seated for a long time in a chair, was conscious when he was taken to the Erasmus hospital, located in Anderlecht. “We are still waiting to know how he is doing. We are on the way to the hospital,” declared Patrick Evenepoel, the cyclist’s father, contacted by HLN. The exams that the rider present last weekend in Qatar to attend the Formula 1 Grand Prix alongside his wife Oumi Rayane will take at the invitation of the French team Alpine should allow us to find out more about his state of health. The condition of his bike, the frame of which was split into two parts under the violence of the impact, is however not reassuring. hope the images are misleading.
