VIDEO. Cycling: the impressive fall of Wout Van Aert and several favorites in Across Flanders

Wout Van Aert et plusieurs favoris ont chuté dans A travers la Flandre. – CAPTURE D'ECRAN

Wout Van Aert a abandonné À travers la Flandre, ce mercredi 27 mars, après une grosse chute collective. Une chute qui lui coûtera sûrement sa place au Tour des Flandres, ce dimanche.

The Belgian Wout Van Aert abandoned the race Across Flanders after a very violent fall in the company of several other favorites, Wednesday, four days before the Tour of Flanders.

The leader of the Visma-Lease a bike team went to the ground 67km from the finish in a right turn taken at full speed. He stood up with difficulty, his shirt torn and his back completely torn, before being evacuated on a stretcher.

😮 Wout van Aert victime d'une terrible chute ! Le Belge est contraint à l'abandon après un incident de course qui a également impacté Mads Pedersen, Jasper Stuyven ou encore Biniam Girmay…

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Several favorites all in

His compatriot Jasper Stuyven, the Dane Mads Pedersen and the Eritrean Biniam Girmay also fell heavily, while they were in a small peloton of favorites chasing behind the breakaway .

The Belgian is undoubtedly saying goodbye to the Tour of Flanders which takes place this Sunday, and perhaps even to Paris-Roubaix, on April 7. The Flemish had made these two cobblestone Monuments, which are still missing from his list of achievements, the main objective of his season.