The Belgian cyclist and double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoelthat underwent surgery after an accident Tuesday’s “terrible” training session, he confirmed today He feels good and wants to come back stronger.although the recovery is long.
“It will be a long road, but I am fully focused on my recovery and determined to come back stronger, step by step,” the 24-year-old athlete wrote on social media after being hospitalized yesterday, Tuesday, after crashed into the door of a Belgian postal company van in the town of Oetingen.
Evenepoel, who published a photo on his social networks in which he appears smiling in a hospital bed with his right arm in a sling, explained that he suffered “a broken ribs, shoulder blade, hand, bruised lungs and dislocation of the right clavicle which caused all the surrounding ligaments to tear“.
“After a terrifying accident while training yesterday, I underwent surgery last night and everything went well (…). The comeback begins now,” added the Soudal Quick-Step cyclist, gold at the Paris Games in the time trial and on the road. world time trial champion and third in the Tour de France.
The Belgian cyclist suffered a serious fall at the Giro de Lombardia in 2020 when he collided with a protrusion of the wall of a bridge that sent him forward.
Evenepoel then plunged about five meters into the void and landed in a wooded area.suffered a contusion to his lungs and fractured his pelvis, in an incident that kept him out of competition for several months.
Source: La Verdad
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