A French cyclist was hospitalized after a heavy impact against an obstacle at the Tour of Poland

The French cyclist of Cofidis Nicolas Debeaumarche suffered a serious back injury after suffering a bad accident on Wednesday in the third stage of the Tour of Poland, a round that has unfortunately been in the news in the past due to very serious accidents during its development.

Debeaumarche left the road on a descent and crashed violently into a concrete barrier, a water pipe, 54 kilometers from the end of the 156.5 kilometer stage between Walbrzych and Duszniki-Zdroj, while he was part of a group of 10 men who escaped from the leader of the race.

“Nicolas was taken to hospital, suffered vertebral fractures and remains hospitalized,” a Cofidis spokesperson reported. “Complementary tests, carried out together with the Cofidis medical staff, will be repeated tomorrow.” A few minutes later at the same point was another runner Pepijn Reinderink fell and moments of great panic were experienced at that point with other runners calling for help to help their comrades.

Belgian Thibau Nys won the stage, with Dane Jonas Vingegaard leading the general classification. Visma-Lease a Bike’s Vingegaard finished second in this year’s Tour de France after a three-month layoff following an accident at the Tour of the Basque Country.

In recent years, there have been several serious incidents at the Tour of Poland. In 2019, the Belgian from Lotto-Soudal Bjorg Lambrecht He died at the age of 22 after experiencing a similar accident, falling into a ditch and violently hitting a concrete pipe from the road drainage. It is kilometer 48 of the third stage between Chorzow and Zabrze.

In 2020, the Dutch Fabio Jakobsen had to be put into an induced coma in hospital after crashing violently into barriers at the finish line following a collision in which his compatriot Dylan Groenewegen He was disqualified from the race for dangerous behavior.