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the tour, Spoiler Alert: Christopher Columbus finally made it
Vincenzo Nibali abandons Tour de France with broken vertebra after Alpe d’Huez crash. Then you read the report and it's a fractured vertebra, still hurts like hell. https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/r...e-dhuez-387401
I didn't think the fall was that serious. slow pace must of landed wrong.
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Friggin fans... they need to figure it out. I like the italian approach of putting soldiers in those funny outfits on the side of the road.
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The moto's need to carry cattle prods with them to keep the fans at bay. That sucks and that's no minor injury there.
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How long does a vertebrae take to heal? Is he out for most of the remaining year?
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And, just to set the record straight, that article is wrong. It states
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It must suck to put in so much time training for the event and an intangible is the thing that takes you out.
There was also this article with Nibali a few days ago on VeloNews regarding boring TV. https://www.velonews.com/2018/07/tou...cycling_472562 |
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A less conspicuous posting title would be helpful to those who are catching up on the Tour coverage on demand
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^^^^^^^
Agreed. I'm a couple days behind. Please, no spoilers in the title. |
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How many more ads could Cycling Weekly fit on a page?
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I think a day is fair. You gotta keep up
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Hopefully that dude's camera broke... you're supposed to keep the damn strap around your neck.
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Agreed -- I get the tradition, and atmosphere -- and the sheer length and geographic complexity of the course means you have to be somewhat selective about where you deploy what sort of route security. But it's just nuts on the major climbs and it's been that way for quite a while. Whatever risks bike racing entails . . . well, racing-ending-injury-by-idiot-fan because the world's most famous road race cannot give riders a single bike-lane wide path up a mountain has nothing to do with racing. Shoving your way physically through fans, or their signs or capes, or their camera equipment - the shoving, the spitting, the flares and smoke bombs . . . the sheer idiocy of some of the drunken obstruction. You're trying to climb l'alpe at tour pace, at that stage in the race (or whatever stage in whatever year), and then . . . what? I get the luck of the day, and this and that, and bumping and racing, but the crazy is beyond the pale -- at some point it's absurd. |
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