{"id":30986,"date":"2026-06-17T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tour-de-france-2026-wout-van-aert-to-miss-event-with-elbow-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:00:03","slug":"tour-de-france-2026-wout-van-aert-to-miss-event-with-elbow-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tour-de-france-2026-wout-van-aert-to-miss-event-with-elbow-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France 2026: Wout van Aert to miss event with elbow injury"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Belgium’s Wout van Aert is set to miss next month’s Tour de France with an elbow injury.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 31-year-old, who won the Paris-Roubaix in April<\/a>, is a key rider for his team Visma alongside four-time Grand Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard.<\/p>\n

Van Aert suffered the injury after falling in training before last week’s Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes stage race in France and an infection developed in his elbow.<\/p>\n

“The Tour de France is one of my main goals every year. Unfortunately, a crash during training has put a spanner in the works and the injury to my elbow has worsened and has still not healed sufficiently,” said Van Aert.<\/p>\n

According to a statement from Visma, the wound was cleaned in hospital, where he spent “one night under observation” but it has failed to heal in time.<\/p>\n

Van Aert is often seen as the nearly man in a golden era of stand-out talents and had been in good form after beating four-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar at the Paris-Roubaix.<\/p>\n

Visma will announce Van Aert’s replacement on 23 June with the Tour de France set to start in Barcelona on 4 July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Belgium’s Wout van Aert is set to miss next month’s Tour de France with an elbow injury. The 31-year-old, who won the Paris-Roubaix in April, is a key rider for his team Visma alongside four-time Grand Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard. Van Aert suffered the injury after falling in training before last week’s Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes stage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30988,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30986\/revisions\/30988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}