Pro-cycling thread

There's a lot of responsibility on the shoulders of Bardet and Degenkolb next season.

I finally got the 'you've read 5 articles this month' notice on Cyclingnews. Oddly they don't tell you how much is costs to subscribe.

How did you find 5 articles worth reading on Cyclingnews?

Are Cav on the deck @ Ghent

https://www.facebook.com/groups/YesterdaysVelodromes/permalink/989114458308363/

Track is OK though apparently.

https://twitter.com/hermanchevrolet/status/1462456394267959297

Sounds like a bad one for Cav in all seriousness :(

https://twitter.com/festinaboy/status/1462457381518991368

Update: track is worse than thought, Cav is ok

https://www.hln.be/wielrennen/mark-cavendish-komt-zwaar-ten-val-in-gents-kuipke-afsluitende-ploegkoers-van-zesdaagse-ligt-even-stil~a6e91d18/

https://www.wielerkrant.be/nieuws/2021-11-21/-zesdaagse-van-gent-geneutraliseerd-na-zware-val-van-mark-cavendish-en-lasse-norman-hansen

Video of crash:

https://twitter.com/PickxSports/status/1462455346560122894

This is longer so shows the cause more clearly:

https://twitter.com/sporza/status/1462462460422672386

Inrg says stretchered away for check ups .

Hopefully it is routine.

He's up and waving in the end of one of the vids, though clearly in a load of pain

Probably started to hurt even more once adrenaline started wearing off...

Someone dropped a bottle attempting a feed on the inside of the back straight. It wasn't dried properly and the riders weren't pushed up the track. A few laps later.... BOOM. Hell of a noise.

Someone dropped a bottle attempting a feed on the inside of the back straight.

FFS. This is why drinks are had on the ramp or in the D.

It was a rider! No drinking allowed inside the main room this year

I mean for riders, make them climb off and go to the D like on a public session. It could add another element to the racing too.

That makes sense. TBH most riders don't need a drink for a 60 minute race, albeit at the end of a hard week

user cozey, haino 4th in a CX chipper

Cavendish ended up with 2 broken ribs and a small pneumothorax.
Gnarly!

it's OK you can tag me I'm not user WillMelling

Busy day for cyclists being bell ends: both Talanksy and Sagan up for the award.

And a collapsed lung...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/59374143

I'd say that's not really OK.

Not good timing either
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/patrick-lefevere-frustrated-as-mark-cavendish-contract-talks-continue-it-gets-on-my-nerves-that-it-drags-on-for-so-long

I'd say that's not really OK.

Tanja Erath:

"When I fell, my spine was compressed and I fell violently on my head. I was in unbelievable pain and panicked because I felt that something was wrong with my thoracic spine," said Erath.

The fact that she could feel and move her legs gave her some reassurance, but as a precaution she told the rescue workers that she should be lifted "as a whole" to protect her spine. "To my surprise, they did not listen to me and did not follow my request. So they let me walk to the stretcher," she wrote. But that's not all: Erath was simply dropped off at the team hotel by the medical supervisors, "without any further safety measures with a view to my spine," said Erath, who was then brought to the emergency room by the team and only four hours later with a doctor for the first time Had contact. She told him about her fears. "He took my worries seriously and arranged for an x-ray of my spine," said Erath. During the examination, fractures of two thoracic vertebrae were finally diagnosed.

But even after the diagnosis, no further safety measures were taken. So Erath had to run to the CT and was then transferred to the trauma surgery department at Oxford: "Strangely enough, still without any further protection for my spine."

It was only in Oxford that the seriousness of the situation was actually recognized and she was forbidden from moving on her own. Instead, four people lifted her into a bed. It was also found here that a vertebra was unstable and had to be operated on.

However, this procedure should be carried out in Germany. With the support of her friend, SVL Sport GmbH and the team doctor Dirk Tenner, she should be flown home. However, the plan failed because of the petrol shortage in England - one of the consequences of Brexit. "No joke. Because of the lack of petrol there was no ambulance that could take me to the airport," wrote Erath.

She spent her 32nd birthday on October 7th, lashed to a bed with a vacuum mattress in an ambulance that came from Germany and took her home in a twelve-hour drive. "That was the best birthday present ever. I've never felt so relieved," said Erath, who received good news the day after her birthday. After specialists at Cologne University Hospital looked at the results of the CT examination again, it was decided that the fracture on the spine could be treated conservatively - accompanied by regular x-rays. "I am supposed to stay in bed, but I can move with the help of a corset. That was probably the best day of my life," reported Erath, who will be operated on on the collarbone on Tuesday.

When I broke my back when I was 16 I wasn't even allowed to roll into my side unassisted. Instead four nurses had to roll me over and pack pillows behind me only to repeat the process 3omins later to go lie on my back again. 6 months wearing a back brace also sucked.

What'd Talansky do?

Antivax tweeting, Sagan takes the cake today.

I fell off a garden wall about a month ago and landed on my head from about 9 foot.

Ambulance trip to hospital, head taped to head blocks. Other than A&E being pretty slow and really busy (multi car pile up and some serious injuries coming through), I was looked after really well, CT scan, x rays, neck brace, follow up x days, and further checkups.

Fortunately I think I have stronger bones than the average pro cyclist, and escaped without any broken bones in my head and neck or concussion. Did crack a bone or two in my hand due to impact, but they healed up ok.

You’d hope that pro cyclists got quicker and excellent treatment.

Initial response is very bad but take it from me she didn't have to go to Germany, we have some great spinal surgeons here!

The neurosurgeon who operated on my spine has done a few Ineos guys in his time and was excellent.

@Acliff ouch... 🤕