Vos undertakes surgery for collarbone crack

European champ Marianne Vos (Waowdeals) will miss a month of auto racing after collapsing in Liège-Bastogne-Li ège on Sunday and fracturing her collarbone. The Dutch rider had effective surgery to repair the break and will certainly be confined to interior training for the coming weeks.

I won'’ t be racing throughout the following four weeks, which indicates I will have to miss out on the GP Elsy Jacobs, Trofee Maarten Wijnants and the Wielerfestival Aalburg, the Waowdeals leader said.

The elevation training which I had planned during the second fifty percent of May doesn'’ t seem to be jeopardised. It is expected that I can grab where I left off somewhere in June. It'’ s unsatisfactory that things put on'’ t go as prepared I was well alleviating into the pace – but fortunately, the period is still long.

Vos explained the incident, which occurred in the core of the race with simply over 20km to go.

It was going hard in the run-up to the following climb, the Roche-Aux-Faucons as everyone wanted to be well positioned, Vos stated.

There was an accident on the left-side of the roadway in a short descent.read about it site from Our Articles I got on the opposite and saw Jeanne (Korevaar) take a tumble in a soft turn to the right. The group was stunned that made me accident and roll-over, landing on my right-hand side.

Vos got a spare bike from the team cars and truck, completing the race in 56th area, 6:24 behind winner Anna van der Breggen (Boels Dolmans), however knew something was wrong as she had trouble pulling on the handlebars.

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After the race, I had an examination in the group bus, after which I mosted likely to the medical facility in Maastricht for a check where the fracture was validated. I after that had surgery at an expert in Amersfoort.

The treatment went effectively – it'’ s wonderful that people intended to aid so swiftly. I need to unwind for a couple of days. Relying on the discomfort, I can after that cautiously begin training on the Tacx.