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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome of Team Sky is once again battling bilharzia (schistosomiasis), a disease caused by parasitic worms. He suffered from the disease for much of 2011, recovering in time to168澳洲5最新开奖结果: finish second overallꦅ in the Vuelta a Espana, and had hoped to be rid of it for good. But blood test🌸s this year reveal💫ed he still had the parasites in his system.

Froome apparently picked up the disease on🍌 a trip to his native Kenya in November 2010.  He suffered through much of 2011, but thought he had conquered the problem.

He is now riding the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Romandie, with very little racing in his legs so far this season. He 💞didn't feel quite right at the team training camp in Mallorca in January, and had to abandon the Volta ao Algarve with𒊎 a chest infection.

That infection kept him in bed for two weeks and “then lingered on for another two weeks, preventing me from ma꧟king the start at Paris-Nice,” he wrote on his personal website. Once he finally felt better, he suffe𓆉red a training crash the middle of March, “which had me in hospital for the day – luckily only leaving with a chin-full of stitches.”

But after that blood tests “ꦬrevealed active bilharzia parasites in my system, which I have been trying to get rid of for the p💙ast 18 months. This would explain why the chest infection affected me so severely and it took me so long to get over.”

Since then, the 26-year-old has been able train well the last three weeks while undergoing treatment, “and all the signs are looking good. It will🎐 probably still take me a bit of time to get used to the race rhythm again but physicall༺y and mentally I’m now ready to race again. At long last!”