Deceuninck-QuickStep's Yves Lampert will miss the Tour de France after breaking his collarbone in a crash in Milan-Torino on Wednesday, but it was clearly a clean break and the former Belgian road race champion will return to group He will return to racing and tackle his biggest goals of the season in October: the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix.

"It was a clean breakaway," Lampaert told Het Nieuwsblad on Thursday. 'I hope to be back in the peloton within four or five weeks. So I can't make the Tour de France, but I'll make the cobbled classics in October my big goal.

After returning to Belgium from Italy on Thursday, Lampert was examined at a hospital in Herental by team doctor Toon Crace, who determined that the 29-year-old would not need surgery.

Immediately after crashing on Wednesday, Lampaert's attention turned not to his own injuries, but to the medical condition and health of his Detuning-Quick-Step teammate Fabio Jacobsen, who crashed in the group finish of stage 1 of the Tour de Pollogne the same afternoon. ...

"Everything will be fine. What my best friend Fabio is going through is worse," Lampaert said of his Dutch teammate, who is stable in a Polish hospital.

Het Nieuwsblad speculated that Lampaert's route to the late October "spring" classics in Flanders on October 18 and Roubaix on October 25 could be via the Tirreno-Adriatico (September 7-13) and Binkbank tours (September 29-October 3) He speculated that it might be via.