Samuele Battistella had earmarked the Ardennes Classics as one of the key goals of his season in 2022, but a crash du💮ring the Amstel Gold Race left him battered and bruised and even unconscious on the road.🐼
Fortunately he did not suffer serious injuries but faces a period of rest rathe✅r than racing in Belgium.
It was around 150km into the 254.1km 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Amstel Gold Race that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Battistella’s Ardennes plans unrav♏elled. Television cameras captured an alarming picture of a rider lying flat on the edge of a roundabout. Fotunately medical staff quixkly rushed to𝓰 his aid.
After the race 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Astana Qazaqstan came out with a medical update, showing photographs 🐼of a wounded but still smiling Battistella.
He “got some wounds on his face and broke one tooth, 4 stitches on eyebrow and 3 stitches on upper lip have been applied,” said Astana Qazaq♌stan in a post 𒉰on Twitter.
The rider then added more about the ramifications of the crash in a further post🐼on social media.
“I’ve lost the memory on what happened yesterday at Amstel Gold Race, I crashed so hard on the ground that I wasn’t con🎃scious for 20 mins or more,”.
“Luckily the medical s🅘taff at the hospital said is all “ok” I just need recovery an✅d stay under control.”
The Italian rider had marked out the Arꩲdennes Classics ♉as his targets after finishing his season with a victory in 2022, ramping up for Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne on April 20 and Liège-Bastogne-Liège on April 24 with training at altitude.
Battistella took his first professional win on roads close to home at the Veneto Classic, in October of✨ 2021. It was also his first victory since he took out the under 23 road race title at the 2019 Road World Championships in Harrogate, following the disqualification of Nils Eekhoff’s for drafting. It was the next year that he shifted to the WorldTour with NTT, then moved over to Astana.
He took a fourth and fifth place on his fi🦋rst two days of racing for the 2022 season at Tour de la Provence and has also stepped up to the podium again this season. He took second behind David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) on a messy crash marred finish on stage 2 of the Volta ao Algarve. He abandoned Paris-Nice on stage 3 because of bronchitis, only returning to the peloton at the Amstel Gold Race.
