https3a2f2fs3 newsifierams3digitaloceanspacescom2fwwwindeleiderstruinl2fimages2f2025 012fniklas behrens 6777e36b37223 Visma | Lease a Bike ended the UAE Tour in style on Sunday. The Dutch team came to the Emirates with ambitious goals but suffered setbacks from day one. After the withdrawal due to the illness of sprint leader Olav Kooij, GC contender Thomas Gloag, and domestique Julien Vermote, the team saw Niklas Behrens abandon after a hard crash on the last day. And that just a week before the spring classics…
Visma | Lease a Bike and Wout van Aert had already swallowed a bitter pill this week with the news that Christophe Laporte and Dylan van Baarle will not be there on Opening Weekend, Laporte due to illness and Van Baarle not yet fully recovered from a broken collarbone. Behrens crashed so hard in the UAE Tour on Sunday that his ability to participate in the first weekend of March in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne is suddenly in doubt.
Chris Froome (Israel-Premier Tech) and Arvid de Kleijn (Tudor) broke their collarbones , and Visma | Lease a Bike did not release any information about the exact severity of Behrens’ injuries in a press release after the race. The 21-year-old German did not make it to the finish line. Only Bart Lemmen, Daniel McLay, and Tosh Van der Sande remained.
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