Brandle ruled out of Giro d'Italia after Romandie collarbone break
Time trial♑ specialist crashe꧋d while pre-riding prologue course
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Matthias Brändle’s season was dealt a significant blow Tuesday when the Austrian crashed and broke his collarbone at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Romandie.
The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Trek-Segafredo rider was on the prologue course and riᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚding reconnaissance when the fall took place. He was taken to a local hospital in Fribourg where x-rays confirmed a lateral collarbone-fracture to the left side.
Trek-Segafredo later announced that the 28-year-old would have surgery on Wednesday and spend between seven to 10 days off the bike. The injury rules Brändle out of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d’Italia, where he wouꦍld have been one of the possible co🦩ntenders to win the opening time trial in Israel.
"I am very disappointed. Mostly🅠 because I cannot help the team here and in the Giro. The crash w𒈔as a really stupid one,” Brandle said in series of Tweets.
"I was focused on the first corner and didn't recognize a bump which brought me down from my handlebar. It was only 10🎶km/h so I had no time to make a roll or something. I was really looking forward to racing the next weeks after a long training period where I put in everything. I believe I had it in my reach with this tricky parcours to go for the win with the training I did in the last weeks."
At the finish in Fribourg, team directeur sportif Yaros🌱lav Popovych added more details regarding the💧 crash.
“He’s in hospital," Popovych told Cyclingnews. "He was🧔 here and doing the recon and then, from what I know, he hit a television cable in the road. He lost the gr﷽ip on his handlebars and that was it. He went down on his left side. He was for the Giro but…”
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Trek-Segafredo won the opening stage in Romandie last year but came into this year’s race without a dedicated GC contender. Although they have already lost a rider to injury, their overall plan will remain the same asဣ they go after stage wins.
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