Remco Evenepoelwho is suffering from multiple fractures after a serious fall in training last Tuesday, likely to remain “eight weeks without a bike”, declared this Saturday Patrick Lefeveregeneral manager of the Soudal Quick-Step team, to the Belgian media.
“Remco suffered five different injuries, including one of the ligaments of his shoulder blade (which required surgery) and which will take time to repair. Doctors are talking about eight weeks without riding a bike“, he told Le Soir and La Dernière Heure/Les Sports.
This eight-week period means he can resume training in the last week of January.
In the best cases, the two-time Olympic champion of the Paris Games can reappear in Paris-Nice (March 3-10) or, depending on the program you want, in Tirreno-Adriatico (March 4-10).
“It would be fair, but with a man she wanted, it was as much as possible“, continued the leader of flamenco.
The 2022 world champion had the accident while training alone on Tuesday in the Gooik region, northwest of Brussels. He did not avoid a car from a Belgian post office, whose postman suddenly opened the door as he passed.
Evenepoel was picked up with broken ribs, right shoulder blade and hand, and suffered a bruised lung and dislocation of the right clavicle “which caused all the surrounding ligaments to tear,” as he explained in a broadcast of the message. by X on Wednesday after undergoing surgery.
The two-time Paris-2024 Olympic champion has not survived a fall since the beginning of his careerthe worst happened during the Giro di Lombardia in 2020, on the descent of the Mur di Sormano. After falling about ten meters into the void, he suffered a serious pelvic fracture and lung damage.
Last April, he was involved in a serious fall in a group at the Tour of the Basque Countryhis clavicle and right shoulder are broken. He returned to competition eight weeks later, at the Critérium du Dauphiné.
Lefevere added that his rider has not given up on participating in the Giro next season (May 10 – June 1)because his goal is to continue winning the three Grand Tours of his career, but, he continued, to do this he has to continue reducing the difference that separates him from the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar.
Source: La Verdad
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