MattTuck
04-06-2015, 06:26 PM
And so continues the curse of Americans on BMC. Hoping for a speedy recovery.
BILBAO, Spain — BMC’s Peter Stetina broke his right tibia, patella, and four ribs in a crash near the finish line of Monday’s opening stage of Vuelta al Pais Vasco.
His teammate, Darwin Atapuma, was also among the half-dozen or so riders who were involved in the pile-up about 400 meters from the finish line of the 162.7km race. The crash happened when the middle part of a reduced peloton was passing three-foot-high metal poles topped with orange traffic cones near the curb lane of the finishing straight.
“Some guys barely missed the poles and some clipped them,” Stetina said. “I didn’t even have time to react or pull the brakes. You don’t expect to have fixed obstacles in the middle of a field sprint.”
BMC’s chief medical officer Dr. Max Testa said the normal recovery time from an injury of this type is several months.
Read more at http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/04/news/stetina-seriously-injured-in-crash-at-pais-vasco_365658#Q8eeXXTabzuaqWR3.99
BILBAO, Spain — BMC’s Peter Stetina broke his right tibia, patella, and four ribs in a crash near the finish line of Monday’s opening stage of Vuelta al Pais Vasco.
His teammate, Darwin Atapuma, was also among the half-dozen or so riders who were involved in the pile-up about 400 meters from the finish line of the 162.7km race. The crash happened when the middle part of a reduced peloton was passing three-foot-high metal poles topped with orange traffic cones near the curb lane of the finishing straight.
“Some guys barely missed the poles and some clipped them,” Stetina said. “I didn’t even have time to react or pull the brakes. You don’t expect to have fixed obstacles in the middle of a field sprint.”
BMC’s chief medical officer Dr. Max Testa said the normal recovery time from an injury of this type is several months.
Read more at http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/04/news/stetina-seriously-injured-in-crash-at-pais-vasco_365658#Q8eeXXTabzuaqWR3.99