Dwars Door Vlaanderen (188.6 km) goes straight through Flanders

[Hugh Januss]

Like... breathe... ?

Precisely!

 

[RedheadDane]

I've ridden with broken ribs. I was fine as long as I didn't stand out of the saddle. I also had trouble rising from bed (doing a sit-up, basically).

So, you just teleported onto your bike?

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

So, you just teleported onto your bike?

At least I felt I did, after my more severe MTB crash, 14 days later very early morning with backpack with laptop, clothing for change over my arms. Clearly remember I really don't remember how I went from lying in the bed to getting up on the bike, might've been more or just one long blackout with the spine to take over navigation.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So, you just teleported onto your bike?

The easier version would be to replace your feet/legs with wheels, but that would probably create other issues.

 

[Didinho]

I think bettiol has pulled something

He pulled the win in Nokere Koerse today. With ease.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Mads Pedersen is out of my top 3 for Flanders now. But his classics season isn't ruined, and that's lucky. He has been good at avoiding crashes in his career. This time he had no chance, but maybe it wasn't pure coincidence that he got away from it relatively unscathed.

 

[proffate]

So, you just teleported onto your bike?

I moved the bike underneath me instead of hopping aboard

 

[RedheadDane]

I moved the bike underneath me instead of hopping aboard

You have very long arms.

 

[red_flanders]

Daaaay-um, I missed quite a bit this morning. Ribs and clavicle? Ouch. That’s gonna leave a mark. Broke my ribs surfing, could hardly breathe for a week. Hurt for many weeks. Kudos to Jorgensen, kid is on fire.

Have to catch up on it all tonight. Oh…wait.

Latest episode of Shōgun is still in my queue…highlights it is!

 

[jmdirt]

Sounds like you had a complicated anterior break? That would be really nasty!

I've had fractured ribs in the back and side (the side fracture was an MTB fall on a log while going downhill!). Not too miserable other than laughing or coughing. Once it was in the off season and I had a cold though, so the coughing was a continual evil reminder.

Fractures and breaks are actually the same thing. I presume you are thinking of a fracture as a less serious type of break?

Medically speaking you are correct, but most people think of a fracture as a samll, incomplete crack, as opposed to a full on break (ie: green stick vs transverse displaced).

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Everyone who is all "Broken ribs are nothing," clearly didn't have the broken ribs I had...and Wout has 7 of them..It.Hurt.To.Wipe.My.A$$.For.Weeks. on top of trying to get out of bed, and showering and hitting a pebble on the road in my car...but the kicker is the sternum...

Your "I could do it!" posts seem very silly.

 

[jono]

Has there been a further injury report regarding Alex Kirsch? He was one of the riders down first and most heavily.

 

[Oldermanish]

He has also several fractured ribs which means much longer to recover.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1773032348382081106

View: https://twitter.com/vismaleaseabike/status/1773032348382081106?t=bLGcIwk_W5g4ALV4LKQj0g&s=19

Hopefully "fractured" could mean cracked and not displaced badly. Otherwise he's going to have a tougher time even maintaining form when breathing is painful. F*ck...I really wanted a PR rematch; that was one of the greater editions with MvP.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Guess it wasn't straight through Flanders but straight through all Flanders contendors... damn

 

[Oldermanish]

Everyone who is all "Broken ribs are nothing," clearly didn't have the broken ribs I had...and Wout has 7 of them..It.Hurt.To.Wipe.My.A$$.For.Weeks. on top of trying to get out of bed, and showering and hitting a pebble on the road in my car...but the kicker is the sternum...

Your "I could do it!" posts seem very silly.

Sorry you've been through that, too. Never done the sternum but a teammate hit the trifecta with the sternum, two ribs puncturing the right lung and a collarbone. He hardly noted the collarbone after a week what with all the other chaos going on.
He did not race again.

 

[Ripper]

Everyone who is all "Broken ribs are nothing," clearly didn't have the broken ribs I had...and Wout has 7 of them..It.Hurt.To.Wipe.My.A$$.For.Weeks. on top of trying to get out of bed, and showering and hitting a pebble on the road in my car...but the kicker is the sternum...

Your "I could do it!" posts seem very silly.

Indeed those would be silly posts! And it the entirety of the injuries ... Wout is physically just hammered. So many fractures. So much deep bruising and torn skin. The guy is going to be in a world of hurt even with the best pain medications. The only 'bright side' to this for the remainder of the year, if there turns out to be a bright side (still unknown), is there could be a chance to super compensate during a solid recovery where he could get to a high level for the second half of the year.

There are a lot of qualifiers to that aforementioned bright side though. A lot will remain unknown for quite a while. Sh*tty deal

 

[CHGJ2000]

I think Paris-Roubaix is still a step too far for now, he seems to really struggle with keeping up with accelerations and eventually all that solo time pays. Incredible engine though, one of the biggest in the current peloton – possibly even bigger than Ganna's.

He's definitely not explosive at all, but I think it is underestimated a bit how much of a massive effort he had to do to bridge to the group. He said after the race that he was pretty cooked after that.

Jumbo helped themselves a lot immediately attacking the group after the mass crash... they caused. We didn't get to see it on camera, but from the power file of Valgren (800w for 34s at the bottom of the climb) and the face of the guys as soon as we switched to them from the crash, loads of guys were out of position and having to do massive efforts to get back to the front where they were smashing up the climb.

 

[logeardaddy]

After a crash in a masters cx race, I had to go the emergency room for a suspected broken collar bone. I almost passed out during the x-rays, but didn't say anything. They gave me a sling and sent me on my way with a doctor's appointment. Just when I got home, they called me up to say I needed to come back straightaway, as a second look at the x-rays had also revealed a punctured lung.

 

[jono]

Has there been a further injury report regarding Alex Kirsch? He was one of the riders down first and most heavily.

Answering my own question, he broke his hand:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1773092396294709456

View: https://twitter.com/RTLlu/status/1773092396294709456


I'm hardly fluent but normally I can decode cycling-related stuff in Dutch and German and I even managed to piece this one together, but took me a while to realize it was neither of those languages but Luxembourgish.

 

[woodburn]

yeah and im saying that was wrong

Because he crashed? That's such hindsight thinking. He might have crashed in MSR or Strade. We'll never know if the plan was wrong because he didn't get to execute it. But you can't put these guys in bubble wrap. Froome and Bernal had massive crashes on training rides. Was that the wrong plan?

 

[Barkintheeye]

What about Stuyven (sorry if I missed that among all the posts of hurting/non hurting ribs)?

 

[Billie]

He's definitely not explosive at all, but I think it is underestimated a bit how much of a massive effort he had to do to bridge to the group. He said after the race that he was pretty cooked after that.

Jumbo helped themselves a lot immediately attacking the group after the mass crash... they caused. We didn't get to see it on camera, but from the power file of Valgren (800w for 34s at the bottom of the climb) and the face of the guys as soon as we switched to them from the crash, loads of guys were out of position and having to do massive efforts to get back to the front where they were smashing up the climb.

Yes. on Sporza they added a 30 sec clip of the crash from the motorbike in front of the group. When the clip stops in the front of the bunch it's the EF riders, the Jumbo riders with Kung right behind them. In the clip Milan (who couldn't latch on on Kanarieberg) was a lot further back.

 

[Billie]

I've got a hard time seeing a path to victory for Küng in any classic from here on.

Today's race served him a chance on the silver platter. Küng had nothing to do, but to lure for his chance to move in the last 30 kilometers. Instead he works too much in front once again and gets caught out twice by Bettiol and Jörgensen because of inattentiveness. In the final he actually sees what Benoot is going to do and still lets him go away. Then, he's in defense, needs to shut down the move and subsequently gets counter attacked by Jörgensen.

This just can't happen to him. If it's Abrahamsen who sneaks away instead, that's cycling. But he can't let himself beaten by Visma like that.

He really should have let Jorgenson close the gap to Benoot, De Bondt and Tarling on the backside of Nokereberg. That would have given Kung a good opportunity to take the initiative once Jorgenson closed the gap.

 

[Bolder]

Indeed those would be silly posts! And it the entirety of the injuries ... Wout is physically just hammered. So many fractures. So much deep bruising and torn skin. The guy is going to be in a world of hurt even with the best pain medications. The only 'bright side' to this for the remainder of the year, if there turns out to be a bright side (still unknown), is there could be a chance to super compensate during a solid recovery where he could get to a high level for the second half of the year.

There are a lot of qualifiers to that aforementioned bright side though. A lot will remain unknown for quite a while. Sh*tty deal

I believe Alaphilippe was in a similar situation afterwards his 2022 crash in lbl, broken ribs and collapsed lung, at least.

 

[search]

What about Stuyven (sorry if I missed that among all the posts of hurting/non hurting ribs)?

broken collarbone. First time in his career, by the way.