Soler airlifted from Tour de Suisse after crash
Updated: Colombian suffers sev﷽e🔯re head trauma and multiple fractures
Movistar's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Juan Mauricio Soler has crashed out of the Tour de Suisse on the 157.7km sixth stage from Tobel-Tägerschen to Triesenberg/Malbun. The Colombian collided with a spectator and was airlifted from the course with a suspected fractured skull and has been placed in a medically induced coma, according to Reuters. The spectator suffered minor injuries.
According to information provided by his Movistar team, Soler's initial medical tests confirmed a severe head trauma with a cerebral edema and multiple fractures and bruising. He is being treated in the intensive care unit of the hospital, where doctors will carry out further﷽ tests to check the progress of his injuries.
Doctors placed him in a medically induced coma in order to perform surgery on his fractured skull. "He has serious injuries, but we can not say now if his life is in da🐬nger," said Dr. Robert Kretsch.
Soler was lying in second overall on the general classification at the time of his ac♐cident, 54 seconds behind race leader Damiano Cunego.
The crash came four days following Soler's stage victory on Crans-Montana, which he dedicated to his fall🐟en teammate Xavier Tondo, who died in a freak accident at his home in Spain.
Soler's collision came 33km into the stage, and race organisers neutralised the race while doctors attended to him. The race was re-started at kilometre 46.
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