Two-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar suffered a broken wrist after crashing out of the Liege-Bastogne-Liege one-day classic.<\/span><\/p>\n Pogacar’s UAE Team Emirates said the Slovenian, 24, would need surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The race was won by Belgian Remco Evenepoel, who retained his title after victory last year, with Britain’s Tom Pidcock coming second.<\/span><\/p>\n The Netherlands’ Demi Vollering had earlier claimed a historic victory in the women’s race.<\/span><\/p>\n Pogacar crashed with Dane Mikkel Honore – who also had to pull out of the race – after 85km and was taken to hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n UAE Team Emirates medical director Dr Adrian Rotunno said Pogacar had “suffered fractures to the left scaphoid and lunate bones” in the wrist, adding a specialist hand surgeon would be operating on the rider on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n Liege-Bastogne-Liege was Pogacar’s final race before heading for altitude training for the Tour de France, which begins on 1 July.<\/span><\/p>\n After winning this season’s Amstel Gold Race and the Fleche Wallonne, he was the pre-race favourite and had been aiming to become only the third man to complete a hat-trick of Ardennes classic wins.<\/span><\/p>\n Davide Rebellin in 2004 and Philippe Gilbert in 2011 are the only other men to complete the trio of wins.<\/span><\/p>\n Road race world champion Evenepoel, 23, coasted to victory on the 258km route, the Soudal Quick-Step man breaking away with 30km to go and finishing more than a minute in front of his nearest challengers.<\/span><\/p>\n Ineos Grenadier’s Pidcock outsprinted Santiago Buitrago Sanchez of Colombia to claim second place, with Ireland’s Ben Healy just behind them in fourth.<\/span><\/p>\n Evenepoel is the first rider to win the race back-to-back since Michele Bartoli in 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n Vollering’s victory made her only the second woman to complete the hat-trick of Ardennes classic wins.<\/span><\/p>\n The 26-year-old’s second Liege-Bastogne-Liege win added to her recent success at the Amstel Gold Race and the Fleche Wallonne.<\/span><\/p>\n Compatriot Anna van der Breggen completed the Ardennes triple in the same season in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n “It is unbelievable,” Vollering said. “I felt the pressure as it is not every day you have the chance to do the treble.<\/span><\/p>\n “I really wanted to bring home this victory.”<\/span><\/p>\nVollering makes history<\/h3>\n
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