Particularly "Doctors told him to quit the Giro. He’d need a plaster cast. He asked them to wait and see. He didn’t want to quit..."
*"On the 16th stage, he crashed heavily on the same shoulder as his broken collarbone"
*"He passed out from the pain. Because of the respect the peloton had for Il Leone, they waited"...
There's even more on the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-BJVK1HvKg
& on "Rule 5"
Particularly
"Doctors told him to quit the Giro. He’d need a plaster cast. He asked them to wait and see. He didn’t want to quit..."
*"On the 16th stage, he crashed heavily on the same shoulder as his broken collarbone"
*"He passed out from the pain. Because of the respect the peloton had for Il Leone, they waited"...
There's even more on the link.