Boonen rides through pain to sixth place
Quickstep rider deter𒉰mined to ride Vuelta to the end
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Boonen rode thr♏ough his pain on Thursday to place sixth in the mass sprint finish in Pontevedra. The Quickstep rider had earlier that day disclosed that he was suffering ౠfrom an open groin wound which makes it extremely painful to sit on the saddle.
“In the beginning I felt good and I rode along,” he told Het Nieuwsblad. “But with the miles, the pain from the hole in my perineum got stronger. As a consequence, you push a higher gear an🦹d destroy your good legs. And then you miss the explosiveness.”
For the next few days, “I will try to surviveꦫ the mountains in Asturias. Maybe I can pick out a stage afterwards. It's pretty hard work again the next day, but I will to go to Madrid. I have to🥃 go.”
Boonen said that the heat and sweat had cause an irritation in the perinium, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:which had become an open wound.
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