Race organisers told Cyclingnews that the crash occurred on a descent some 65km into the stage, when one motorbike collided with another that was at a standstill, sending both into the bunch of 𒐪riders. The stage was initially neutralised and then abandoned altogether.
to have been involved in the incident include Jesper Asselman (Roompot Oranje Peloton), Pieter Jacobs (Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise), Tony Hurel (Direct Energie) and Loïc Chetout (Cofidis, Solutions Credits). The extent of the injurꩵies have not been confirmed.
Among the most serious seems to be Lotto Soudal's Stig Broeckx, who has reportedly taken a blow to the head and has been taken to Aachen hospital. The Belgian rider was hi💞t by a moto earlier this year at Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne.
Several images have been captured of the incident and theꦿ neutralization of the stage, and posted to Twitter.
The UCI posted a statement on Twitter regarding the new rules that it introduced regarding the conduct of motorcycles ꧅in races, and wrote that it would look into the incident to determine𒆙 if those rules were broken.
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