Roelandts suffers fractured cervical vertebra
Lotto rider reported to be able to move
André Greipel from the Lotto-Belisol team may have won the first stage of the Santos Tour Down Under today, but his teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jürgen Roelandts has been diagn๊osed with a f♛ractured vertebra after the race, following a mass crash within the final kilometre of the stage.
A scan performed at hospital in Adelaide revealed that Roelandts broke his sixth cervical vertebra♒ when he hit the tarmac at 70km/h during the run-up to the final sprint. According to directeur sportif Herman Frison, "he is in pain, but he can speak and move."
Roelandts was even able to send a picture of himself on his Twitter account before🅺 💛he had the scan done, which did not reveal any additional injury as previously might have been feared.
Now Roelandts and his team are waitingཧ for a specialist to assess the fracture and recovery period. "It's a pity that Roelandts can't start tomorrow and we'll have to defend the l🧜eader's jersey with only six men," Frison added to .
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