Double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel has sustained multiple fractures after suffering a crash with a postal van while training in his native Belgium. Further assessments also showed bruising to his lungs and a dislocation to his clavicle. He will undergo an operation on the latter with the hope of leaving hospital on Wednesday.

Olympic cycling gold medalist Remco Evenepoel sustained fractures to his rib, right shoulder blade and right hand in a training accident involving a Belgian postal vehicle on Tuesday. "We confirm that an incident occurred this morning involving a bpost vehicle and cyclist Remco Evenepoel,

Remvo Evenepoel, Belgian cyclist and double Olympic gold medallist in Paris, suffered a serious accident yesterday and was taken to the hospital with multiple fractures. The cyclist crashed with a mail van after the door was suddenly opened, and Evenepoel didn't have time to react and avoid it.