
Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe rider Maxim Van Gils will miss ‘months’ of racing, his team has said, after he fractured his pelvis in a finish-line crash at the Clásica Jaén on Monday.
The Belgian came down in the final meters of the Spanish one-day race, as he opened his sprint for second place against Tom Pidcock (Pinarello-Q36.5) and Jan Christen (UAE Team Emirates-XRG). Christen was later disqualified by the commissaires, having appeared to deviate to the left, veering towards the barriers and across Van Gils's line.