Double Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard has revealed that his injuries were so bad in the Itzulia Basque Country crash this spring that he thought he was going to die.
In a revealing, emotionally charged, end-of-year interview with t on Danish TV broadcaster dr.dk, the 28-year-old Visma-Lease a Bike rider and his wife Trine Marie Vingegaard Hansen looked back at the terrible mass pile-up on the descent of the Olaeta on stage 4 of the Basque stage race – and the life-threatening injuries that Vingegaard suffered as a result.
Then on the sweeping right-hand corner where the crash happened.
As TV images controversially continued to show scenes from the accident, his wife Trine Marie Vingegaard Hansen was watching in Denmark. Despite being pregnant, she immediately began making plans on how to get to the Basque Country. By the time the team contacted her half an hour after the crash, she and her daugher were already en route to the airport.
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