As soon as possible Van Aert landed on the Belgian classic Across Flanders this Wednesdaywith the blow delivered, it was clear that the news about the Belgian runner was not good, especially when his screams of pain were heard and when television cameras showed his battered body.
He Team Visma-Lease a Bike rider he had to leave the ambulance race that his partner would end up winning Jorgenson and the team’s first medical report, early in the afternoon, did not invite optimism, with a broken collarbone and several broken ribs.
A medical report removed him from three of his next great sporting goals, viz Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix and the Amstel Gold Race.
After learning the scope of this first medical report, discussions quickly began about whether Van Aert would arrive on May 4 at Italy is spinningin what will be his debut in the ‘Corsa Rosa’ after five appearances in Tour de France.
A presence that, based on the latest medical statement, seems unlikely. A second examination found a fissure in the sternum.
“Will Aert go to the Giro? “Impossible,” commented the sports doctor Chris Vandermiren in ‘Sporza’. “Falling on those ribs again can be fatal,” added about the crack in the sternum: “It’s a lot of trauma. We only see things like this in serious traffic accidents, all we know is about in surface damage. In the case of a “A collision at 80 or 90 km/h, the interior can also experience serious damage. Now we have to continue to investigate if there is more damage. A crack in the sternum heals itself, but it takes time and can last for months.”
To recover health, Chris Vandermiren did not dare to give a return date for the Belgian runner, because the best thing is to “go week by week”, especially because Van Aert You must work on mental strength after receiving the setback and be very careful, because “in the event of a new fall, those broken ribs can pierce the lung membrane like a razor blade and cause of lung collapse.”
Therefore, it is likely and always depending on his recovery, he will likely fight again Olympic Games in Paris on August 3, before The return (17) and the Swiss World Cup (September 29).
The serious fall that Van Aert suffered in A Through Flanders This is not the first serious setback he suffered in his career, we must remember the severe fall he suffered in the time trial of France Tour de France 2019with only 1.2 kilometers to go, an accident in which he opened his hip when he clipped a fence and was sidelined for two months.
Source: La Verdad
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