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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ivan Basso’s Giro d’Italia preparation suffered a further setback when he was forced to abandon the Volta a Catalunya on Wednesday. The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liquigas-Cannondale rider fell just 7km into the snow-shortened stage to Port del Canto, taking a heavy blow to the same right knee that he injured in a fall♎ at Paris-Nice.

“The roads were wet, we were going at about 40kph and there was a bend,” Basso told . “A rider hit a car at the side of the road, bounced off it and m🙈ade six or seven fall, ꦍmyself included.”

Although Basso did not suff🍰er a particularly forceful blow, he fell awkwardly, and had the misfortune of taking a k🌳nock to the same knee that he injured in France. Julian Dean (GreenEdge) was a faller in the same crash and suffered a broken leg.

“My foot stayed clipped in and my right knee hit off both my frame and the tarmac,” Basso said. “I don’t have a scratch on me, but I took a bang in the same place at Paris-Nice and it swelled up a lot. I looked to keep on going but there was no sense in that, and I stopped after 80km.&rཧdquo;

Remarkably, Basso has yet to finish a race in 2012. He has now abandoned the Trofeo Laigueglia, GP Lugano, Paris-Nice and Volta a Catalunya. With the Giro just six weeks away, t🎀he Italian faces a race against time if he is going to impact the race. He will continue his preparation with a lengthy training camp at Teide in Tenerife, and will return to racing at the Tour of Romandy (April 24) in a bid to get some racing in his legs before the Giro.

“I have to wait for🔯 the result of the scans, there wouꦐld be no point in making plans beforehand,” said Basso. “If it’s only a blow, then I’ll rest for the weekend and then I’ll leave Italy for the Canaries. Otherwise, there’s no point in hiding it, things would be complicated.”

While Basso&rsq🅺uo;s teammate Vincenzo Nibali was initially pencilled in to forgo the Giro and ride the Tour de France, the Sicilian is only set to make a definitive decision on which grand tour he rides in late April.

Winner of Tirreno-Adriatico and animator of Milan-San Remo, Nibali is not due to race again until the Ardennes classics, and was already set to train with the Liqui💞gas-Cannondale Giro pre-selection in Teide in the coming weeks.