Lance Breaks Collarbone

Posted March 25, 2009 – 8:25 am in: Cycling

WILL LANCE RACE THE GIRO?

WILL LANCE RACE THE GIRO?

As promised, PisaniTraining will closely follow Lance Armstrong’s comeback to Professional Road Cycling. We reported that Lance’s training and preparation was going ahead of schedule with a top 10 performance in this year’s Tour of California. In all of Lance’s Tour victories, he has never crashed like this and I was keeping a close watch to see if somehow a crash could derail his comeback. This is no doubt about it a great story to follow. Lance’s comeback is one heck of an effort, both physically and mentally.

This excerpt was taken from Velonews.Com

Lance Armstrong crashed hard in Monday’s opening stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y León and was transported by ambulance to a hospital in nearby Palencia, Spain.

Race organizers and the Astana team doctor confirmed that the seven-time Tour de France champion had broken his right collarbone after Armstrong underwent an X-ray at a hospital in the city of Valladolid.

“Lance suffered a fracture of the middle third of the right collarbone as well as some bruises on his right hip and arm,” said team doctor Pedro Celaya, who was with Armstrong at the hospital.

Armstrong left the hospital Monday evening and said he was “miserable.”

“It has never happened before, I feel very disappointed,” he told reporters as he left the hospital. “I feel miserable right now so I have to relax a few days.”

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