More info about Contador's leg injury

josame

mfin wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Haha, tell that to a rider who rides for 20mins after a fracture.

He's such a lightweight. Geraint rode for 5,000 minutes after a fracture. A whole TDF.

So he is 0.4% the man that G is. Fact.

Ah but he didnt then go onto the Vuelta and win it did he... see

greasedscotsman

Neither of them are any sort of Lord Uxbridge!

tailwindhome

He's no Ranulph Fiennes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulph_Fiennes

In 2000 he attempted to walk solo and unsupported to the North Pole. The expedition failed when his sleds fell through weak ice and Fiennes was forced to pull them out by hand. He sustained severe frostbite to the tips of all the fingers on his left hand, forcing him to abandon the attempt. On returning home, his surgeon insisted the necrotic fingertips be retained for several months before amputation, to allow regrowth of the remaining healthy tissue. Impatient at the pain the dying fingertips caused, Fiennes cut them off himself with a fretsaw,[3] just above where the blood and the soreness was

frenchfighter

Lol what a joke. You seem to be missing the point.

frisbee

He managed to ride on after the crash for a period of time. He recovered quickly enough to enter and win a major tour 6 weeks later.

The only sensible conclusion is that it was a superficial injury, no nerve damage, no ligament damage, no break.

If he was a great champion, he should have carried on and finished the Tour de France. Like Johnny Hoogerland did.

rick_chasey

RichN95.

phreak wrote:

He's no Shin Fujimoto is he?

greasedscotsman wrote:

Neither of them are any sort of Lord Uxbridge!

TailWindHome wrote:

He's no Ranulph Fiennes

None of them is a match for Mike the Headless Chicken

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken)

rick_chasey

The bike radar pro-race ideal rider (it seems).