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‘An exquisite sport with a darkish edge’ – Wout van Aert suffers the cruellest blow

The impression of the high-speed Dwars door Vlaanderen crash left a direct mark on Wout van Aert, his jersey torn to shreds, his again aflame with highway rash and the a number of fractures inflicting enormous ache. The magnitude of the second took a beat or two longer to register.

When it did, Van Aert’s physique started to convulse in sobs. He didn’t want an x-ray to inform him what his damaged coronary heart already knew. His 2024 Classics marketing campaign had ended, not in victory on the Roubaix velodrome, however right here, on a lonesome highway outdoors Ronse, 67km from the end of Dwars door Vlaanderen.

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