At least 20 athletes have suffered injuries since the men's world and professional teams resumed racing in the last week of July. Many of them were caused by crashes upon their return to racing after the early season was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) is the latest rider to announce his absence. He will miss Sunday's French national championship road race due to back pain after crashing in the fourth stage of the Criterium du Dauphiné.

Jumbo Visma is the most injured rider, with Steven Kruijswijk suffering a dislocated shoulder and Primoš Roglic also badly injured in a crash at the Dauphiné.

The team has already lost Gijs Leemreize at the Vuelta a Burgos to a broken finger, Dylan Groenewegen is out with a broken collarbone, and caused a crash that seriously injured Fabio Jakobsen (Deceuninck-QuickStep), He was suspended. Mike Tunisen has been out with a knee injury since crashing during training in July.

Decep was leading every day with Wout van Aert, Roglič, and Sepp Kuss until Roglič abandoned before the start of the final stage.

Deceuninck-QuickStep suffered arguably the worst crashes: Lemko Evenepoel crashed into a ravine on the descent of Il Lombardia's Muro di Solmano on Saturday, suffering a broken pelvis and lung injuries; Jacobsen crashed in Poland Jacobsen is facing a long rehabilitation process due to serious injuries to his jaw and facial muscles from the crash in Poland. The team is also without Yves Lampert, who broke his collarbone in a fall in Milan-Torino.

Bora-Hansgrohe has also been hit hard, with German champion Maximilian Schachmann breaking his collarbone after being interrupted in the last few kilometers of Il Lombardia by a driver who entered the track. Emmanuel Buchmann and Gregor Mühlberger crashed in the Dauphiné but escaped with broken bones.

Crashes at the Criterium du Dauphiné accounted for about half of the riders' injuries after the race resumed, and riders threatened to protest the road conditions on the final stage. Jumbo-Visma called the road surface on the Plan Bois pass on stage 4 a "disgrace" and said large holes and gravel led to Kruijswijk's crash.

Jumbo-Visma manager Richard Plug said he and other team directors no longer trusted the UCI to ensure that the race met safety conditions and called for an independent group to be involved in evaluating the course.

Jacobsen's crash also sparked criticism of the Tour de Pollogne race organizers' use of the high-speed Katowice downhill in the opening stage, where several riders were injured when the impact dislodged a barricade and sent them flying onto the course: Marc Sarrault ( Groupama-FDJ), Damien Touze (Cofidis) and Eduardo Prades (Movistar) were among the injured.

Il Lombardia organizer RCS Sport is facing an investigation by the UCI as to why the driver was on the course at the end of Saturday's stage, but questions are also being raised about the steep and technical descent of Solmano. Evenpoel is not the first rider to fall into the valley on the descent; four riders were injured elsewhere in 2017 when they went over a low wall and crashed into the valley. Patrick Lefevere, manager of the Dečunink Quickstep, questioned whether he even should have used Solmano after seeing Evenpoel's crash.

According to Procyclingstats.com, the average number of injuries in August in a typical race year is 23. The month is only half over, but in 35 days of racing, 15 riders have already suffered broken bones or serious injuries, and at least 10 more have suffered minor injuries from crashes.

Others, such as Nairo Quintana (Arkea Samsic) and Egan Bernal (Ineos), abandoned the Dauphiné due to injuries unrelated to the crash: Quintana was concerned about a knee he hurt when a driver hit him in Colombia, and Bernal had pain in his old back injury.

Before the pandemic interrupted the race, 26 riders had suffered fractures or serious injuries in the 61 days of racing, with EF Pro Cycling's Michael Woods (broken femur) and Trek Segafredo's Matteo Moschetti (dislocated femur, broken hip) being the worst cases Both returned to racing. Both have returned to racing.