Castille y León Stage One Post Race: Lance Hurt

Crazy twist of fate!

 from biciciclismo….

16:22: The position in which Armstrong took his right arm to climb into the ambulance, taken at an angle of 90 degrees, and the fact that it has identified the area immediately to the doctor’s shoulder, suggesting that the seven-time winner Tour has a broken collarbone . His teammate, also implicated in the fall, Thomas VAITKUS was the first closer to Lance Armstrong, but he has told you that right away there was nothing to do, to continue.

16:18: The fall has occurred in a narrow road in which many riders wanted to go ahead.. Montoneros and has been most affected has been the U.S., which has fallen on the right side of the road.

16:15. Lance Armstrong, out of the race . Ambulance will be on their own feet and not move his right arm.

The American Lance Armstrong suffered a fall at the first stage of the Tour of Castilla and Leon and could suffer a fractured clavicle. He was evacuated to hospital Río Carrión de Palencia, where his condition is assessed.

The fall occurred at fifteen kilometers from the finish line in a stage of 141 that began in Paredes de Nava and ends in Balatanás. Armstrong went to ground in a Montoneros and could no longer stand up. The first exploration venture a broken collarbone, which is yet to confirm.

… or maybe a premonition is more likely. I always thought that the most amazing aspect of his 7 straight tour victories, was that he managed to make it all the way across those seven years without suffering something like that. Law of averages (although I now stand back and let Lopex, Urusala and Majope throw up statistics on rider accidents vesus career length vesus qty of victories).

there were this many crashes and broken collar bones this early. Can you? Weird. Maybe it’s just me not paying close enough attention. But: Are guys just riding and chatting a bit much, not payiing attention? Listening to the radio too much of a distraction? Peloton getting more twitchy? I also wonder about the bike setups lately; looks like a lot of guys are going with very high/forward saddles and very low handlebars in the last year or two, which changes CG a ton and produces a different kind of fall. But I dunno.

Team Astana says (as of 24 minutes ago):

Lance has arrived in the hospital and is being examined.

Crash update on Lance from Castilla y Leon: Clean collarbone fracture without complications. Should be fast recovery. More to come.

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The seven teams who have Rojas got 10 points each. Champagne will be flowing tonight!

Armstrong’s presence drew dozens of journalists to the five-day race across northern Spain, many of whom promptly left following Armstrong’s early exit.

At #6 there—“Dekkers” is plural. Like “Hans.”