Jonas Vingegaard suffered lung injuries in Itzulia Basque Country crash

Reigning Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard suffered a collapsed lung in Thursday's crash in the Itzulia Basque Country race.

His team, Visma-Lease a Bike, said on Friday that hospital tests also revealed bruising or bleeding of the lung tissue.Race leader Primoz Roglic and fellow Grand Tour winner Remco Evenepoel also abandoned the race after going down in the crash.Wout van Aert, Vingegaard's leading domestique and winner of nine stages of the Tour, broke his collarbone and several ribs in a crash at the Dwars door Vlaanderen one-day race on 27 March.

Lidl-Trek rider Mattias Skjelmose, who took the overall lead on Thursday following the loss of several high-profile riders, saw his narrow lead reduced to two seconds by Max Schachmann, who crossed the line third. It leaves the top 10 riders separated by 30 seconds heading into Saturday's demanding 137.8km finale which starts and ends in Eibar.Thirty years of Nirvana's NevermindMoment diver slips during Olympic pool inauguration'Murals are the 21st century statue' - Liverpool's iconic artwork

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