- 10 juil. 2017, 14:05
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“Just in front of me, a man fell and I stumbled across him,” Gesink told Dutch broadcaster NOS. “It was really not that hard a fall. I fell with my buttocks on the asphalt and felt it in my back." The 31-year-old was taken by ambulance to hospital, where he was diagnosed with a fractured L1 vertebra.
"It goes without saying, that I'm lying on my back and I'll have to do that in the next few days. I have to keep quiet. I have a stable break, so surgery is not necessary.”
Gesink will be fitted with a corset. "That's to prevent me from making movements that I cannot make. And with that I'm mobile. But this will take a while. I almost never fall, but if I fall, it always gets hit.”
There was no prediction as to when he would be back on his bike or racing again.
He had not lost his sense of humour, either, as he tweeted Monday morning, “Wow, I'm so lazy this first rest day @LeTour I did't even get out of bed for breakfast... to wash... or to go to the toilet!”
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