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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Boonen is making a swift recovery from the crash thatꦅ ended hisജ 2015 season, but has revealed that he has been left with permanent damage to his hearing. 

The Belgian came down he🧸avily on stage two of the Abu Dhabi Tour i🀅n October and was taken away in an ambulance after hitting his head and losing 𝔍consciousness, with blood coming from his left ear. He suffered a temporal fracture, and was was prevented from flying back home for two weeks. 

"I lost part of my hearing and it is permanent. That is anoying but you get used to it," Boonen told Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad on Tuesday. 

That said, every other aspect of the 35-year-old's recovery seems to be going well and things seem to be ahead of schedule, which is a good indication for next spring. Originally, 168澳洲5最新开奖结💧果:doctors warned he may face six months out, which cast a big doubt over what would be one of his final 🉐spring Classics campaigns, but 🍸he has been training as normal without problem.

"They had tolℱꦫd me six months, we are now two months later and I'm training well. I've never even had any bother, just my ear," Boonen said.

Since the crash, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Etixx-QuickStep rider has always that hܫe didn't think it would take six months to recover. 

"I quickly got my memory back, I know 𓃲where I was before the fall happened, I remember everything after I had returned to consciousness, and my motor skills are good. I can 𒉰talk normally, I can see everything," he said in the aftermath.

"All that was reassuring. If there is no pressure on the brain in the first five hours, the great🏅est danger has passed."

Boonen also revealed in the interview with Het Niuewsblad that he plans to take up motor racing when he finally hangs up his cycling wheౠels. He told of how has often visited the Zolder or Spa-Francorchamps tracks after training to practise his driving.

"It is 100 per cent certain that after my cycling career is over I'll be in motorsport," said Boonen. "There are quite a few championshipᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚs in Belgiu🌠m where you can have fun as an amateur. The ultimate goal is the 24 hours of Zolder, close to home, family and friends."