Niki Terpstra after crashing in the 2019 Tour of Flanders (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images) / Niki Terpstra in hospital (Instagram)
Niki Terpstra (Direct Energie) is set to miss this year's Paris-Roubaix after crashing in Sunday's Tour of Flanders and suffering a severe head trauma, with the the rider kept overnight in hospital as a precaution.
Terpstra was looking to defend his Tour of Flanders title but was involved in a crash that knocked him unconscious with 157km left to race, as the peloton approached the Oude Kwaremont.
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