Mathieu van der Pol has been cleared of a suspected fracture after undergoing medical tests following a fall in the men's mountain bike cross-country event at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday, Dutch national team coach Gerben de Knegt confirmed to Wielerflits.nl.

Van der Pol suffered a dramatic fall from a high drop on the first lap of the Izu City course, refitted his bike and continued the race, moving up to 13th place, but dropped out on the last two of seven laps due to hip pain.

The Dutch rider blamed the crash on a misunderstanding regarding a safety fence at the crash site during a training session. Van der Pol assumed that the planks were in place during the competition and that he could ride down the drop-off. Because the planks were not in place, Van der Paul lost his balance, landed hard off the front wheel, and tumbled down the hill.

After his suspected fracture was cleared, Van Der Paul posted a photo on Instagram, writing only, "I'll be back."

Milan Bader told NOS.nl that he warned his Dutch teammates that the slope might be removed. Bader told NOS, "This may be hard to say, but we talked about it during lunch today."

"Mathieu said, 'Everyone jumps there. So you don't? He said, 'No, I'm going to roll off that board.' Then I said I took that board off for the test event for the 2019 competition."

Van der Pol said on Twitter that he thought the board was in place. He said, "That plank was there during reconnaissance. I was only told they were removed at the test event."