Remco Evenepoel sustained fractures to his right shoulder blade, hand and ribs.
DOUBLE OLYMPIC CHAMPION Remco Evenepoel sustained fractures to his right shoulder blade, hand and ribs after he collided with the open door of a postal van in Brussels on Tuesday.
Advertisement The former national youth footballer lay stricken and ashen-faced, but conscious, with his bike broken in two by the force of the impact in the Belgian capital, according to witnesses. Belgian media reported widely that Evenepoel had a broken collar-bone and would be transferred to a specialist hospital to have it operated upon.
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