Professional cycling is a brutal sport which can rule out anyone, from the world’s best rider to a Continental-level domestique, for months in just a split second.
Crashes are part and parcel of racing and training, which means that every team in the peloton has a list of injured riders to look after at some point during the season. 2026 is no different, with plenty of riders suffering various fractures and injuries in the month and a half since top-level racing began in Australia.
“It’s just so dangerous now, and it’s getting worse and worse, with the speed of the racing and the aggressive way they’re racing,” Sean Kelly wrote in his most recent Cyclingnews column. “Everybody seems to be fighting for every centimetre of road, and nobody is backing off at all. So you get all these crashes and all these broken bones. The issue has to be looked at immediately.”
Injuries in the men’s peloton
Injuries per team in the men’s peloton.
Bahrain Victorious
- Vlad Van Mechelen – Fractured collarbone, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)
Cofidis
- Oliver Knight – Fractured hand, training (Feb 10)
- Damien Touzé – Ruptured spleen, abdominal trauma, fractured femur, Tour of Oman (Feb 10)
- Sergio Samitier – Fractured radius, scaphoid, Tour of Oman (Feb 9)
Decathlon-CMA CGM
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Euskaltel-Euskadi
- Txomin Juaristi – Fractured collarbone, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Feb 4)
Flanders-Baloise
- Henri Vandenabeele – Fractured collarbone, Vuelta a Analucía (Feb 18)
Groupama FDJ-United
- Josh Kench – Fractured ribs, Tour of Oman (Feb 8)
- Oliver Le Gac – Fractured femur, training (Jan 2)
Ineos Grenadiers
- Ben Swift – Fractured pelvis, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)
- Tobias Foss – Fractured shoulder blade, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Feb 4)
Lidl-Trek
Lotto-Intermarché
- Taco van der Hoorn – Knee surgery (Feb 13)
- Lionel Taminiaux – Fractured collarbone, Cadel Great Ocean Road Race (Feb 1)
- Lars Craps – Knee surgery (Jan…
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