Van Baarle breaks collarbone at the Tour Down Under to continue a streak of utter calamity for cycling's cursed cobblestone contender.

The cobble-bashing Dutch bulldozer fractured his collarbone Tuesday at the Santos Tour Down Under to continue a long sufferfest of sickness, injury, and case of “superglue face.”

According to Pro Cycling Stats, injuries alone will have robbed Van Baarle of around 24 weeks of racing in the 25 months since his high-profile move to Jumbo-Visma (now Visma-Lease a Bike).

And that’s not accounting for a spate of non-selections and non-starts due to sickness.

Sure, Van Baarle hasn’t suffered singular career-threatening crashes like his Visma-Lease a Bike teammates Jonas Vingegaard and Wout van Aert.

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