Roelandts out of hospital
Hopes to return to racing at Tirreno-Adriatico
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jürgen Roelandts has left hospital and will fly home with his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lotto-Belisol teammates this coming Monday. The Belgian was eager to get back on his bike as soon as possible after recovering from 🦩crash injuries suffered earlier this week, possibly as soon a🐼s Tirreno-Adriatico in March.
Roelandts was the most seriously injured in a crash involving multiple riders in the finale of the Tour Down Under's first stage, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果🔯:suffering a fractured cervical vertebra.
He doesn't remember the details of the crash. “Don't ask me how it happened,” he told the Nieuwsblad. “There was so ꦺmuch dust I couldn't see where or what I was riding. My helmet was ꦺbroken.”
Doctors at the hospital in Adelaide gave him a neck collar to wear for six weeks, forbidding him from riding during that time. “I'll see what the doctors say in Belgium, but I hope to ride Tirreno (March 7-13). That 🐼way I will have a spring race.”
He told the Belgian newspaper that he hopes to back on his bike training as so♊on as the jet lag from his flight ജback home wears off.
Even when he was first inj✃ured, Roelandts found a way to communicate with the world - posting a photo of himself in the hospital emergency room on his Twitter account. “You should know: I had just been given morphine for pain and felt a bit euphoric. That makes you a l𓂃ittle weird,” he wrote.
His teammates have done all they can to help Roelandts. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Andre Greipel dedicated his stage t𝓰hree win to him, and tweeting a photo of him at the team dinner table Thursday.
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“We visited him the night of the accident and he was a bit worse for the wear then,” Lotto-Belisol's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Adam Hansen told Cyclingnews. “We put a whole load of movies on his tablet so he didn't get bored. ༒ We've been trying to visit whenever possible.”
Greipel won Thursday's stage to take back the leader's jersey, but things could have gone better, Hansen said. “Roelandts is a key part of the train. He’s 𒈔not here, and that’s why we didn’t have a perfect lead-out today.”
