Belgian gets treatment back home but question marks surround his Tour build-up
Visma-Lease a Bike leave for their last Tour de France training camp on Monday, but there are doubts about whether Wout van Aert will be on the plane to the French Alps.
The Belgian withdrew from the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes the morning after winning stage 5, citing discomfort in an elbow injury sustained in a training crash ahead of the race.
There have since been conflicting reports in the Belgian media, where Van Aert’s state of health is being covered meticulously.
suggested the wound on Van Aert’s had become infected, though this was contradicted in a subsequent report by Sporza.
Het Nieuwsblad and Sporza both report that the wound had become “inflamed” or “aggravated”, and that Van Aert returned to Belgium on Friday and went straight to the hospital in Herentals, where he underwent an ultrasound scan and treatment on the wound.
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