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ILovecycling said:Great! I hope you have right info as this gave me a lot of joy (!) and if its not true I will probably kill you Flo
bolded: I think high cadence no? High cad with little power to his tibia.
edit: fvck,information madness
oronet commander said:No surgery, only ten days out of the bike, according to ABC, Spanish newspaper
ILovecycling said:You learned spanish?
Iirc 2 or 3 years ago you were sad you cant understand him or something like this
Publicus said:My spanish is non-existent and this isn't a format that i run it through google translate
Futuroscope said:They should postpone the Vuelta so Contador can recover.
Miburo said:Even without AC this vuelta has a lot of potential but the form of many contenders will be questionable.
How will piti, purito and quintana their form be?
The only one i'm sure that'll be 100% is Froome.
It says he will not need surgery but the tibia is broken. To be at the Vuelta will be very hard but not impossiblePublicus said:My spanish is non-existent and this isn't a format that i run it through google translate
lenric said:Valverde isn't a factor anywhere.
thats impressive,to learn a language from interviews etc,your will is big too!LaFlorecita said:You learn a lot from just trying to read articles and listen to interviews
There is interesting part about that fracture where doctor says that the fracture is in a place (outside position) which is not 'weight-bearing' (dont know how to say in english).The bone (fibia) is without other problem and skin is pretty good too.Publicus said:My spanish is non-existent and this isn't a format that i run it through google translate
Today, Alberto Contador said goodbye to his teammates during breakfast and went to the Clinica Centro Hospital in Madrid with high hopes of a quick recovery – fast enough to participate in the Vuelta a España, although everyone in the Tinkoff-Saxo team are aware of how hard it will be to become fully competitive in just 40 days.
After thorough examination, the medical staff at the hospital with speciality in this kind of injury came up with this conclusion:
“The doctor told me that surgery would increase the trauma the knee has suffered and will delay the recovery time even further so I’m not undergoing surgery. The good news is that I have no tendon or ligament injured and the fissure is in the best possible place. I’m homebound for minimum two weeks and, until the wounds heal, the leg has to be immobilized”, said Alberto Contador after leaving the hospital in Madrid and added:
“Doctors have told me it will be almost impossible to become ready for the Vuelta but we’ll see how the recovery develops. I’m calm because the doctors gave me the worst case scenario but I will work hard in the coming weeks and we’ll see how far I can get”, said the leader of Tinkoff-Saxo.
ILovecycling said:There is interesting part about that fracture where doctor says that the fracture is in a place (outside position) which is not 'weight-bearing' (dont know how to say in english).The bone (fibia) is without other problem and skin is pretty good too.
“Estar en La Vuelta a España es difícil pero no imposible, algo que sí pasaría si le hubiéramos intervenido, dado el poco margen de recuperación que esto supone”
“Doctors have told me it will be almost impossible to become ready for the Vuelta but we’ll see how the recovery develops. I’m calm because the doctors gave me the worst case scenario but I will work hard in the coming weeks and we’ll see how far I can get”, said the leader of Tinkoff-Saxo.
his spanish is ..meh,is he vasco,gallego or what?slosada said:Dr. Leyes needs to brush up his Spanish:
To be at La Vuelta is difficult but not impossible, something that would happen if we had operated on him. given the short recovery margin that this supposes"
First part is clear, but the conditional part undergoing surgery would have prevented OR helped him to start La Vuelta?
Because I'm reading different accounts on the outcome of the surgery: On this thread it has been said that surgery makes it faster for the short term but no very good in the long run.
On El Mundo it has been explained that the surgery required 6-8 weeks bearing no weight.
Anyway the conditional sentence fails to express it clearly, as "something" is not previously well defined (it could be "To be at la Vuelta" or "impossible")
How is this impossible then?Vuelta is 5 and half weeks away.If he won't touch a bike in 2 weeks he still will have 3 and half weeks (so almost a month) to get in shape - of course not 100%,but still.Tinkoff-Saxo Team said:I’]two weeks[/U] and, until the wounds heal, the leg has to be immobilized”, said Alberto Contador after leaving the hospital in Madrid and added:
“Doctors have told me it will be almost impossible to become ready for the Vuelta but we’ll see how the recovery develops.
ILovecycling said:I dont understand this part.
How is this impossible then?Vuelta is 5 and half weeks away.If he won't touch a bike in 2 weeks he still will have 3 and half weeks (so almost a month) to get in shape - of course not 100%,but still.