Former 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France stage winner 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Victor Lafay is set to miss botꦿh Grand Tours this year due to recovery from kne🌠e surgery.
The French rider, who races for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, underwent surgery on Monday after suffering from recurrin🎀g knee pain, his team announced on Wednesday.
29-year-old Lafay will be forced to take a ful🌌l month off the bike following the surgery, with a return to racing only coming at the end of the summer.
"Victor Lafay had been dealing with a recurring knee pain that required surgery. The procedure was successfully carried out on Monday," Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale announced on socꦇial media.
"He will now take a month-long break to recover ꩲbefore resuming training. His return to competition is expected in August."
The procedure means Lafay will be forced to write off much of his season. This spring, he completed seven days of racing, taking third place at the Classic Var and completing Milan-San Remo before withdrawing from action on stage 3 of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Itzulia Basque Country.
Lafay moved from Cofidis to Decathlon AG2R for 2024. However, hi✃s season was heavily disrupted by another knee issue.
His debut with his new team was delayed until the Tour de l'Ain in mid-July. He'd finish seven𝔍th at the race, also competing at the Vuelta a Es𝕴paña, before rounding out his 2024 season with fourth place at the Tour of Guangxi.
Previously, Lafay had hit stardom with stage wins at the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France. In 2021, he triumphed from the breakaway to win at Guardia Sanframondi in Italy, while two years ago, a final-kilometre solo saw him hold off Wout van Aert, Tadej Pogačar, and Tom Pidcock to win stage 2 of the Tour de France in Sa🍒n Sébas🌼tián.
Last summer, while the Tour went on without him, Lafay told that he was suffering from a painful condition of his "kneecap ꩲrubbing against the 🍸femur".
"In m𝔉id-January, I felt pain in my left knee while riding," he said. "We quickly understood that it was in the kneecap and femur, but it took 🐠us a long time to find the cause and the remedy. We didn't know if it was a muscular imbalance or if we needed to do strengthening.
"Thenꦅ we finally found a good treatment approach about a month and a half ago with stretching and defibrosing. That is, we massage the scars and use suction cups to try to free the surrounding tissue.
"Over time, I acquired so much knowledge that I asked my physiotherapists if there were any direct pat📖hways to e☂ntering a school in the third year."
It's unclear whether Lafay's current knee issue is related to the issue which saw him miss six months of the 2024 season, bu🅘t he will be out of action for some 𝐆time following his surgery.
