Ilnur Zakarin Discussion thread

[liamito]

so sad

 

[DBotero]

Horrible end for Zakarin dreams in this Giro.It seems he escaped only with a broken left collar bone.Hopefully no more injuries as his crash was looking really bad on TV.

 

[Gloin22]

Hard luck for dude, but they seriously should teach him how to ride a bike. It's as important as pushing the watts.

 

[hrotha]

He was very lucky, all things considered.

 

[Eclipse]

If he "only" suffered a broken collarbone after that it's practically miraculous. He looked bloody dead sprawled out in nasty area full of rocks and we all know he's got 0 padding on him.

 

[RedheadDane]

And now Danish reporter says that according to Konychev Zakarin hasn't even broken a collarbone.
All things considered, this guy is really lucky!

 

[markene2]

Re:

And now Danish reporter says that according to Konychev Zakarin hasn't even broken a collarbone.
All things considered, this guy is really lucky!

How... His bike was laying 15 meter up the road, his front wheel was 10 meters behind him. It looked nasty, hope to have him back at the Tour or Vuelta. Grande Sputnik!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Ilnur should go for the Vuelta, they don't like descents there, plus it gives him more recovery time. Have faith in the mighty Kamaz!

 

[Forever The Best]

Terrible crash today
Lucky that he may not even have suffered a broken collarbone though.

 

[Carols]

Phew I must admit when I saw him lying there I thought he might have left us and I'd have to turn off the show. He'll be back soon enough with just a broken collarbone! Heal soon young lad and get back on the bike.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Re:

Ilnur should go for the Vuelta, they don't like descents there, plus it gives him more recovery time. Have faith in the mighty Kamaz!

Haha, aint that the truth.
I reckon he will have a hard time. How well does he in heat?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Still pretty unproven, he had a decent but unspectacular attempt at the Vuelta a Burgos while he was still with RusVelo doing a good TT but losing 2 minutes to Neila, and was 2nd in the Tour de Slovénie that year, but last year he had a busy April-May then over August the races he was doing were ones like the Arctic Tour of Norway so hard to tell. He DNFed the Volta a Portugal in the Senhora da Graça stage back in 2013, but as he was just a fairly anonymous RusVelo youngster back then don't recall why. However, April-May then August-September seem to be his mini-seasons.

 

[lenric]

Probably after all he was just getting a tan and tomorrow he's gonna win the *** out of Chavez, Nibali and Krush.

 

[infeXio]

Gregor Brown @gregorbrown

Zakarin fractured collarbone and shoulder, says Giro official med report #Giro

 

[RedheadDane]

Re: Re:

And now Danish reporter says that according to Konychev Zakarin hasn't even broken a collarbone.
All things considered, this guy is really lucky!

How... His bike was laying 15 meter up the road, his front wheel was 10 meters behind him. It looked nasty, hope to have him back at the Tour or Vuelta. Grande Sputnik!

I was just reporting what I heard reported.

And maybe got a little too optimistic.
But, yeah... compared to how it looked, a broken collarbone and shoulderblade is damn lucky.

 

[FilipeFD]

Wasn't anyone behind him to tell what happen?
Him, laying down, inside the curve is a bit strange.
maybe he put the front wheel outside the road ... who knows

 

[luckyboy]

Still very good for his first GT going for the GC.

Obviously he's not with the best on 2000m+ mountains but he could have been in the podium fight still, especially if his TT finished as well as his split times indicated.

 

[Jagartrott]

Re:

Wasn't anyone behind him to tell what happen?
Him, laying down, inside the curve is a bit strange.
maybe he put the front wheel outside the road ... who knows

I'm speculating (based on seeing him ride down mountains earlier) that he made a first mistake, which he tried to correct, and ended up making an even bigger mistake.

 

[sir fly]

I wish him all the best and fast recovery. Watching him lying by the stream was a scary scene.

 

[Eclipse]

Re: Re:

Wasn't anyone behind him to tell what happen?
Him, laying down, inside the curve is a bit strange.
maybe he put the front wheel outside the road ... who knows

I'm speculating (based on seeing him ride down mountains earlier) that he made a first mistake, which he tried to correct, and ended up making an even bigger mistake.

this seems most likely to me given the situation.

though i'd probably say not a bigger mistake and just he couldn't correct the original one enough and eventually went down

 

[Arredondo]

He and Purito will form a really strong duo at La Vuelta!

 

[FilipeFD]

 

[Eclipse]

Re:

savage. so glad it seems he hasn't done himself any serious long lasting harm

 

[markene2]

https://twitter.com/IlnurZakarin/status/736274745293955072

He is already back at the hotel. Seems to be in good spirits even though he ended up with a broken shoulder and collarbone.

When i saw the first crash picture it looked way nastier. Cant wait to have Kashechekin v2 back in the peleton and ripping up mountain stages!

It looked nasty though!

 

[movingtarget]

I heard some commentators say that something may have broke or his front wheel came loose but it seems to be human error ? Either way it could have been much worse. Two GC casualties on one stage. A shame for both riders.