Robert Gesink

AndyRubio
AndyRubio Posts: 880
edited July 2009 in Pro race
What happened to him today?
My hour on the plinth

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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Crashed into a ditch and dislocated his shoulder.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Crashed. They were going uphill on a narrow road very fast, riders scrapping for position before they hit the exposed section and the bunch split in three. Gesink hit the deck, it looked bad as he struggled to hold the bars with his left hand, could be a broken wrist or shoulder.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Google now tells me it was a fracture of the radius, rather than the shoulder. Either way, he ain't starting tomorrow.

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    It was actually on the decent of the final little climb on a fast sweeping curve.
    I know that road very well, having spent a couple of weeks in St Jean, where the first climb began and buying my vino,(Fitou) in Caves.
    It certainly is a narrow road, raised from the verges, cut into rocky ground.
    Anyone coming off where he did is fairly certain to get hurt.


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  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Sad for him not to even get to the mountains in his first tour and brave to still make the stage finish. Only consolation is that he is young. He could have 10+ tours ahead of him.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Imagine what would happen if a sportsman in another sport had this happen to them. What a wonderful sport we follow and take part in.

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  • The Prodigy
    The Prodigy Posts: 832
    Shame, I was looking forward to seeing him in the mountains
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    He showed a lot of guts in finishing the stage today, as he clearly couldn't grip the bars with his left hand. He fought hard to regain the peleton and made it, only to lose contact in the last 20 kms. A brave ride, given his injuries.
  • ACMadone
    ACMadone Posts: 300
    Fair play to him for finishing the stage in the hope that he could have ridden again tomorrow. He would have helped lighting up the mountains. On the plus side he's young and will be back to fight it out at another tour.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Really really sad. For him, but also for us; Gesink, with Andy Schleck, was one of the few you could really count on attacking in the mountains. He's still young, his long-term goal should be one day winning the overall, and that still stands, but it's still sad that he has to wait a full year to show again what he can do at the very highest level in the mountains.

    And yes, it's a rough and tough sport. And after finishing a stage after riding for tens of kms with a fracture, you still have to endure a pushy media crowd: http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/wielrenn ... esink_val#
  • don key
    don key Posts: 494
    You say he is young but the pic shows a guy in his forties, pain is a great ager.

    A great trick for getting into bars underage, crash your bike around the corner.

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