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Vingegaard will not race again this season

Aug 17 : Two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard will not race again this season as he recovers from a fractured collarbone, ruling him out of next month's UCI world road championships, the Dane's Visma-Lease a Bike team said on Monday.The 29-year-old crashed during the 15th stage of last month's Tour, requiring surgery.The UCI championships are in Montreal from September 20-27. The one-day Tour of Lombardy in October might have been another target."After a long and intense racing period, a recovery period was planned after the Tour de France anyway," Vingegaard, this year's Giro d'Italia winner as well as the Paris-Nice and Volta a Catalunya in March, said in a team statement. "Due to the collarbone injury, the start of my training has been delayed and it is not possible for me to
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