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France confirm selection change after Barré ruled out of Worlds with wrist fracture
Louis Barré (Visma | Lease a Bike) will miss the World Championships in Montréal after suffering a fractured wrist in a training crash in Canada. In his absence, Jordan Jegat (TotalEnergies) will take part in his second road race as an elite.
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The 26-year-old Frenchman crashed during training on Thursday morning and was taken to hospital for examinations. He was later seen leaving with his arm in a large splint and abrasions.
Visma | Lease a Bike subsequently confirmed that Barré had sustained a fracture to his wrist and would be forced to withdraw from the upcoming Canadian races.
The injury also rules him out of the elite men’s road race at the World Championships in Montréal on September 27.
Barré had arrived in Canada in red hot form after a standout August in which he claimed his first two professional victories. He won stages at the Tour de Pologne and Lidl Deutschland Tour, while also finishing fourth and second overall respectively.
Barré was in fact named in Voeckler’s squad on Friday, before the full extent of his wrist injury was known. The subsequent diagnosis means he will now miss both the Canadian races and the Worlds as he begins his recovery from the fracture.
In his absence, Jordan Jegat has been called up for selection after making his debut at the road race in Kigali, Rwanda last year. The 27-year-old secured back-to-back tenth-place finishes at the Tour de France in July and has signed for Lidl-Trek ahead of the 2027 season.
The French team will be led by Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM), who will be aiming to surpass Karel Kaers in 1934 as the youngest winner of the elite men’s road race.
Racing alongside Seixas and Jegat are Bruno Armirail (Visma | Lease a Bike), Alex Baudin (EF Education-EasyPost), Jordan Labrosse (Decathlon CMA CGM), Valentin Paret-Peintre (Soudal Quick-Step), Nicolas Prodhomme (Decathlon CMA CGM), and Pavel Sivakov (UAE Team Emirates-XRG).
