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Derek Gee-West is fully out of the 2026 UCI Road World Championships Montreal. Six days ago his team called it a crash with no serious injuries; X-rays the next day found broken ribs, and the damage kept growing until nothing was left to salvage.
Gee-West crashed with roughly 40 km left at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, rode back to the hotel, and Lidl-Trek's initial assessment found no serious injuries. Monday's X-rays told a different story: broken ribs, which cost him the time trial and mixed relay by Wednesday while he still targeted the road race. By September 22 that hope was gone too, and Guillaume Boivin has taken his road race spot. «I'm gutted to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to represent Canada at our home world championships» — Derek Gee-West.
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