Kell O’Brien hit by van while out training, broken collarbone ends spring Classics season early
Australian had expected to be on start line♑ for Paris-Roubaix before training crash in Ghent

Australian Jayco-AlUla rider 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kell O'Brien had been expecting to line up at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix on S🌌unday, to continue on with his spring Classics campaign, but his plans and the team’s had to change.
“Unfortunately, Kell O’Brien will not be riding Paris-Roubaix✃ this weekend after suffering a broken collarbone in a crash during train❀ing this week,” said Jayco-AlUla in a medical update. “He has headed home to recover and we look forward to seeing him back on the bike soon.”
The rider who won Olympic gold on the track last year in the Team Pursuit displayed his Classics promise with a seventh-place on his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dwars door Vlaanderen debut in 2022, and while he hasn’t managed to better that yet he has been one o✅f the team’s stronger riders on the cobbles in the past week, coming 35th at Dwars door Vlaanderen this year. However, he’ll have to leave his third start at Paris-Roubaix for another season.
"Spring classics done for me [as] unfortunately hit by a van out training in Ghent,” said O'Brien in an Instagram post on Thursday that added a little more detail 🥂to th༒e team medical update. “Surgery on the collarbone tomorrow."
It’s not the first time O’Brien has broken his collarbone and had to have surgery, crashing in the 2020 Tour Down Under while racing with ওthe Australian national squad, so he’ll know all 🐼too well the recovery path ahead.
Down O’Brien, Jayco-AlUla will head into the 259km 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix with the support squad around team leader Max Walscheid including the experienced players of Jasha Sütterlin – taking on his ninth Paris-Roubaix – 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luka Mezgec and Elmar Reinꦏders while Patrick Gamper will be taking on a second Roubaix and Bob Donaldson꧒ and Jelte Krijnsen are making their debut.
“Roubaix is the biggest goal of my spring campaign, but there are a thousand things that can happen beforehand or during the race,” said Walscheid in a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jayco-AlUla statement. "There&🐬rsquo;s also a question mark about if it will it be wet, which increases the chances of ๊crashes and mechanicals.”
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“This is not within my influence, I ಌcan only control what is, and I try to tick those boxes as good as possible. Otherwise, I will take it as it comes. I hope that more pieces fall into place at the day itself. I’ve put in all of the work over the past weeks and months, and currently, I am where I should be.”

Simone is a degree-qualified journalist that has accumulated decades of wide-ranging experience while working across a variety of leading media organisations. She joined Cyclingnews as a Production Editor at the start of the 2021 season and has now moved into the role of Australia Editor. Previously she worked as a freelance writer, Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and as a correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg. Cycling was initially purely a leisure pursu𝔉it for Simone, who started out as a busin♍ess journalist, but in 2015 her career focus also shifted to the sport.
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