Vingegaard crashes out after 2am doping test
DARIO BELINGHERI/GETTY IMAGES Remco Evenepoel’s win moved him to second in the overall standings Dane breaks collarbone after ‘inhuman’ wake-up call as Evenepoel wins stage 15 20 Jul 2026 - The Guardian Jeremy Whittle Jonas Vingegaard crashed out of the Tour de France on the first Alpine stage yesterday, only hours after being woken up in the early hours to undergo doping controls. He will have collarbone surgery in the next few days. The double Tour winner, who also won the Giro d’Italia this year, climbed gingerly into a race ambulance, his right arm in a sling, after falling as the main peloton exited a roundabout in Bonneville. Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar were subjected to unexpected nocturnal doping controls, outside the normal window of 6am to 11pm, before stage 15, as the race headed to Plateau de Solaison in the Savoyard Alps. Vingegaard was tested at 2am by the International Testing Agency (ITA), while Pogacar’s unexpected knock on the door came at 5am. Pogacar described Vi...