Luke Rowe injured

r0bh
r0bh Posts: 2,436
edited February 2018 in Pro race
Luke Rowe has broken his leg.

On his brother's stag do!
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    I saw his dad out on his bike this morning
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  • EnacheV
    EnacheV Posts: 235
    this guy is very agressive on twitter, seems he is the same irl.

    i hope Sky doesn't pay him a cent while he is injured because of his own stupidity.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Anyhow, ignoring the idiot above:-

    https://www.teamsky.com/article/luke-ro ... ry-lay-off

    Out in the Balkans, I think.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Out in the Balkans, I think.
    Looking at his twitter - Prague
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,548
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Anyhow, ignoring the idiot above:-
    Gotta love the ignore function.

    Sounds like a nasty break, hope he has a speedy recovery with no complications.
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    He did it white water rafting, not falling out of a bar off his t1ts at 3am. Sounds like one of those unfortunate freak accidents, he was just unlucky.
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    EnacheV wrote:
    this guy is very agressive on twitter, seems he is the same irl.
    .

    Oh the irony.
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Won't be winning Het Volk then...
    _
  • EnacheV
    EnacheV Posts: 235
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Won't be winning Het Volk then...

    hey admin can i call people idiots and other nice things without any problems? please let me know, i restrain myself, but i see other people do it and i really want to have a chat with few idiots.
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    EnacheV wrote:
    this guy is very agressive on twitter, seems he is the same irl.

    i hope Sky doesn't pay him a cent while he is injured because of his own stupidity.


    Interesting. I checked his posts back to March. Nothing there at all that was aggressive. Did he take your Strava KOM or something ?
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Of all the ways for a pro cyclist to get injured...

    Hope he wasn't going to feature heavily at Dani and Matt's wedding
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    At least it's near the end of the year. I remember Marconnet missing the rugby world cup after breaking his leg on a skiing holiday. *that* was stupid.
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,436
    cougie wrote:
    EnacheV wrote:
    this guy is very agressive on twitter, seems he is the same irl.

    i hope Sky doesn't pay him a cent while he is injured because of his own stupidity.


    Interesting. I checked his posts back to March. Nothing there at all that was aggressive. Did he take your Strava KOM or something ?

    I was thinking the same, I can't remember him ever being anything approaching "agressive" [sic] on Twitter. Maybe EnacheV
    can provide us with some examples (although I doubt it)
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    I doubt he's paid in dollars either.
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • markwb79
    markwb79 Posts: 937
    Gweeds wrote:
    I doubt he's paid in dollars either.

    I also wondered that......could be euro's though?
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  • Flâneur
    Flâneur Posts: 3,081
    rafting accident rather than drunken antics (ie jumping off a balcony). silly but shit happens.

    How does insurance work for this? I know in rugby and soccer, the pro contracts aren't insured for skiing (or at least weren't)
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    It's a bad one, could be out for a year:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/40874578
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    He needs to consult Bertie's doctor. He worked miracles to get Bertie back on his bike to win the 2014 Vuelta after he broke his leg in the Tour

    *sideways glance to camera*
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,973
    :-(
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  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    I'm sure Sky would never do anything about it because Rowe is such a force....but you'd imagine he has something in his contract to avoid "extreme" sports*.

    *I know he wasn't injured because of the rafting element.
  • tim000
    tim000 Posts: 718
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    He needs to consult Bertie's doctor. He worked miracles to get Bertie back on his bike to win the 2014 Vuelta after he broke his leg in the Tour

    *sideways glance to camera*
    Birtie would have swam to the bank . towing the raft behind him . chopped his leg off because it was slowing him down and got back in the raft using his severed leg as a paddle to singlehandedly steer the raft to the finish. :mrgreen:
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    Rode most if not all the cobble classics + MSR
    He'll need replaced PDQ if this is a longer term injury
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  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Rode most if not all the cobble classics + MSR
    He'll need replaced PDQ if this is a longer term injury

    Id have said it was a long term injury, Taylor Phinney was out for a year wasnt he ? so youve got to assume its going to be around a year,but its all about if the tib knits back together again and how much metalwork they have to put in, and then take out again and all the complications that can lead to, and all of that causes soft tissue damage which takes ages to heal, which is why they cant give a timeline yet

    was his Sky contract up for renewal next year ?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Christ if it's that bad it's a year to heal and a year to get back up to form...
    _
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Christ if it's that bad it's a year to heal and a year to get back up to form...

    That's what I was thinking.....
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • squired
    squired Posts: 1,153
    Based on the description it is one of those injuries that will mean 12+ months before he can ride well again, if not career ending. He is lucky that it wasn't a compound fracture. At 27 he at least has time on his side, unlike Valverde with his injury in the Tour.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    Is this the same timeline of injury that said Epstein Barr would be career ending for Cav?
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Is this the same timeline of injury that said Epstein Barr would be career ending for Cav?

    Immune system is much more variable than musculoskeletal. No-one is going to recover from a bad break in a few months (except Bertie).
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    #Lad!

    Sucky for him though

    Slightly sobering for me too as the rafting trip our guests go on involves a lot of jumping off stuff...
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    ddraver wrote:
    #Lad!

    Sucky for him though

    Slightly sobering for me too as the rafting trip our guests go on involves a lot of jumping off stuff...
    Hopefully jumping off stuff into suitably deep water...

    I've been canyoning a few times and you have to just trust that the guy taking you has checked that the water is deep enough...

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