Following a heavy crash in the final kilometres of Thursday’s stage 3 at the AlUla Tour, Nils Eekhoff has been ruled out of action for six to eight weeks with a jaw fracture.
The Dutch rider was part of Picnic-PostNL’s lead-out train for sprinter Fabio Jakobsen before going down during a hectic run-in to Tayma Fort at the Saudi Arabian stage race.
“For now, he has been cleared and discharged by the local hospital, but when he returns to the Netherlands, we will conduct further assessments on him here with our specialists to explore whether any surgery is needed.
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