The 2024 season of Visma|Lease a Bike risks going down in history as one of the most unfortunate of all time. Just a few hours have passed since the injuries suffered by Steven Kruijswijk And Dylan van Baarle during the fifth stage of Tour of the Dauphiné 2024, but the Dutch team faces a new problem, which has developed in other ways. In fact, a fall put him out of the game Tim van Dijkewho had been a good protagonist recently Giro d’Italia 2024 and that he was in the running ZLM Tour 2024a short stage race taking place in the Netherlands.
The Visma|Lease a Bike representative was also second in the general classification, after having done an excellent inaugural time trial, but during the third stage he was involved in a fall, which forced him to retire, according to what was communicated by the team. At the moment, the details of any injuries sustained by Van Dijke are not known.
The series of injuries and physical problems that have shaken the Gialloneri’s squad this season is almost unbelievable: we recall, among others, those reported by Wout van Aert, crashed at Dwars door Vlaanderen 2024 and forced to miss a good part of the Classics season, Jonas Vingegaard (among those involved in the maxi-fall that occurred at the Tour of the Basque Country 2024), passing through Cian Uijtdebroeks And Olav Kooij, forced to leave the 2024 Giro d’Italia ill. Racing accidents also put him out of action for a few weeks Bart Lemmen And Robert GesinkWhile Christophe Laporte he went through a period of poor condition before crashing badly at the Giro d’Italia, then failing to overcome the after-effects of the accident.
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