Pfannberger had his hands upside down in the RR - why?

Eurostar

Anybody else notice this? When he was off the front he was resting his wrists on the bar tops while his hands were hanging empty, which isn't so unusual, but he had the BACKS of his wrists on the bars. In other words his palms were pointing skywards. Even Hugh Porter said he'd 'never seen anything like it'. Most odd. Maybe his hands were cramping up in the heat?

johnnyc71

I noticed that too! Still, he looked in complete control - but just a little unusual.

andyp

The only thing I could think of was that the air cooled the blood in his fingers so he thought it might be cooling him a bit more?

captain_oakley

His fingers were tucked under the STi cables, it may well be to deal as you say with
'cramp'...... could'nt do it with Campag!


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knedlicky

Pfannberger fractured some bones on the inner side of his right hand just above the wrist (the bones called lunate and scaphoid) when he crashed in the Frankfurt Henninger Turm one-day race in May 2007*. Perhaps it starts to ache there on a long ride, and turning the hand around gives some relief?

* He also broke his collar bone then too, and had to have plates and pins inserted.

emadden

As David Harmon called it: "The Austrian Tuck" ... when you are on the limit like that people do strange things :-)

JC.152

Maybe it was so everyone would remember his break in the olympics without him getting a medal

oldwelshman

maybe he got blisters on his palms after being alone too long in athletes village :oops:

afx237vi

Some of those "female" weightlifters from Turkmenistan are HOOOOTTTTTTT :shock: