Plateau de Solaison, France, July 19, 2026 (AFP) - Two-time winner Jonas Vingegaard suffered a miserable end to his Tour de France on Sunday after crashing around 20km from the end of the 15th stage.
The 29-year-old Dane, who was sitting second overall, went down hard on a bend as his Visma-Lease a Bike team were setting a fierce pace to chase down the day's breakaway.
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Vingegaard was visibly in pain following the crash, which caused another four riders to also fall.
He was then helped into a medical vehicle with his arm in a sling.
This was the first time that Vingegaard had been unable to finish a Grand Tour.
In his five previous participations at the Tour, he won twice and finished second in the other three.
Vingegaard was bidding to become just the ninth man to win the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France in the same year, two years after his chief rival Tadej Pogacar achieved the same feat.
His rivals in the battle for the yellow jersey slowed their pace waiting to see if he would rejoin their group before their teams informed them that he had quit the race and they could push on.
That incident briefly impeded their chase of the seven breakaway leaders but they reached the final 11km-long climb to the finish around two and a half minutes behind Swiss rider Mauro Schmid, who had stolen a march on his break companions.
Sunday's stage was 183.9km from Champagnole in the Jura to Plateau de Solaison in the Alps.
Race leader and reigning champion Pogacar's team-mate Isaac Del Toro, who was seventh overall, was one of the other fallers, although he was able to set off again soon afterwards to rejoin the peloton.
Vingegaard's American team-mate Sepp Kuss was another to tumble and he took a lot longer to get going again.
When he did, he was a long way behind the group of leaders.
Vingegaard's crash came just hours after he and Pogacar were amongst a number of riders to have been woken up at their hotels in the night by anti-doping controllers.
Vingegaard was woken up at 2:00 am, while Pogacar was disturbed three hours later.
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