Jonas Vingegaard Fractures Collarbone in Tour de France Stage 15 Crash

Jonas Vingegaard crashed during stage 15 of the Tour de France and fractured his collarbone, forcing him to abandon the race. The Danish rider had undergone an unannounced doping test at 2 a.m. that morning and lost about 40 minutes of sleep ahead of the mountain stage.

m. and obtained only four hours of sleep. Remco Evenepoel won the stage. Evenepoel described the nighttime testing practice as inhuman. The International Testing Agency stated it is conscious that night-time testing may be disruptive to riders' rest and recovery but that effective testing must, in limited and justified circumstances, occur outside daytime hours.

AP News reported that the International Testing Agency determines the timing of tests through a risk-based assessment and that the practice does not indicate suspicion of an anti-doping rule violation. The UCI has entrusted Tour de France anti-doping testing to the International Testing Agency since 2021. Jonathan Vaughters posted on social media that 2 a.m.

Testing is one of the very effective ways to prevent peptide and testosterone micro-dosing. Vaughters, a former teammate of Lance Armstrong on the US Postal Service team who later admitted using performance-enhancing drugs including EPO and testified in the US Anti-Doping Agency investigation that led to Armstrong being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles in 2012, founded the team now known as Cannondale-EF.

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Test may have contributed to Vingegaard's crash due to disrupted sleep. He also stated that he accepts random-hour testing if it is necessary to prove riders are competing clean. Micro-dosing of substances such as EPO and human growth hormone, which can clear the body within hours, has long concerned anti-doping authorities.