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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nick Nuyens is ready to return to his beloved Spring Classics but is still recovering from complications arising from his fractured hip. Now with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Garmin-Sharp, the Belgian said that he plans to be 100 per cent again for the Tour𒊎 of Flanders.

In 2012, whilst with Team Saxo Bank, he crashed in the opening stage of Paris-Nice. He finished the stage but was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:later diagnosed with a fracture𝐆d rꦫight hip, which 🥀kept him out of competition for t🌜wo months. Nuyens returned to a full programme, including the Tour de France, but continued to have pains.

“In September I had to have a scan,” he told Het Nieuwsblad.  “It turned out that the bones hadn't healed. The two pieces were 1.5cm apart. And I rode the Tour .... aꦕnd not even that badly!”

His form had been good, but “I rode with half a leg.” He had surgery to re-assemble the bone, “but they had to cut through the muscle. A🐻nd you can't restore that in two months.♔”

One difficulty he now faces, he said, is that “there is a difference in strength between my left and my right legs.  The problem is that last year I learned to compensate with the left. I really had to think to even pedal hard ꦉwith my right l♌eg.  It wasn't easy, but subconsciously you save yourself that way.”

Nuyens opened his season at the Mallorca Challenge and is scheduled to ride in the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on February 23, a race he won in 2005 when it was called Omloop Het Volk. This week he test-rode the course with his teꦓammates𓆏.

He hopes to play a role in the race, but “I have no refe𒁏rence” as to how well he will do. “I've not raced against the favourites for the Spring. I've only ridden in Mallorca.

“But the condition is good.  I'm still not 100 per♈cent, but that will come. 100 percent, that is what I have to be at the Tour of Flanders,” which he won in 2011.