{"id":168058,"date":"2025-03-15T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/skjelmose-crashes-out-of-third-place-at-paris-nice-after-road-furniture-collision\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T13:00:19","slug":"skjelmose-crashes-out-of-third-place-at-paris-nice-after-road-furniture-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/skjelmose-crashes-out-of-third-place-at-paris-nice-after-road-furniture-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Skjelmose crashes out of third place at Paris-Nice after road furniture collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/mattias-skjelmose-jensen\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/mattias-skjelmose-jensen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mattias Skjelmose<\/a> (Lidl-Trek) has abandoned <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/paris-nice\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/paris-nice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paris-Nice<\/a> during Saturday&#8217;s penultimate stage after crashing out with 50km to go.<\/p>\n<p>The Danish rider was lying third overall, 59 seconds off race leader <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/matteo-jorgenson\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/matteo-jorgenson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matteo Jorgenson<\/a> (Visma-Lease A Bike), heading into the day, a truncated stage from Nice to Auron.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-base paywall\" data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"\/>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">He was expected to be among the contenders for the win at Auron, a 7.3km, 7% climb to close out the 109km stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">However, with 51km to run, and with the rain falling, he hit a divider in the middle of the road and went down hard on his left-hand side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Skjelmose remained stationary on the road for some time after the fall as he was tended to by medics. He was later reportedly taken away in an ambulance as the stage continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Lidl-Trek posted an update on social media soon after the abandon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;Mattias Skjelmose is forced to abandon after crashing into some road furniture,&#8221; the team wrote. &#8220;He is currently being transported to hospital in an ambulance. We will update when we know more about his condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">As a result of Skjelmose&#8217;s abandon, Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers) moves up into provisional third place at 1:20 down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/skjelmose-crashes-out-of-third-place-at-paris-nice-after-road-furniture-collision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) has abandoned Paris-Nice during Saturday&#8217;s penultimate stage after crashing out with 50km to go. The Danish rider was lying third overall, 59 seconds off race leader Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease A Bike), heading into the day, a truncated stage from Nice to Auron. He was expected to be among the contenders for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6804],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-168058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}