Bad News for Garmin - Slipstream
It appears that on a rainy training day Blake Caldwell fell and broke his femur. the femur part of the story is via a tweet from Tom Danielson. I waited to find it somewhere else and discovered on Blake's website he states that he did crash and is heading in for surgery.
If you recall he broke his pelvis last year at the begining of the season. He did come back to finish 2nd at USPRO in Greenville. I can't imagine this is a downer-go-round he wanted to get on a second time.
Links
http://twitter.com/tomdanielson
http://blakecaldwell.blogspot.com/
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Christian Meier mentions it too...
on his blog – Meier had twittered earlier that there was a change in his schedule in that he was now going to Pais Vasco, apparently this is why. Meier also mentions Tuft’s and Friedman’s crashes in the TT at De Panne and says that both are apparently ok…
I've seen the pics of Meatball
and I have to say he didn’t exactly look “okay”. Man nailed both knees, the right hand, looks like right hip, and right arm. Looked pretty damn painful. Mike’s a stud and tough though so I have no doubt he’ll heal up quickly but, damn, it has to hurt. My warmest wishes to these guys healing up quickly.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
He was at the Tour of Utah in 2008. So if memory serves me correctly he crashed at the Tour of
Missouri. I want to say it was the same injury plus collar bone. A lot of crashes at the De Panne today.
De Panne and T-A
races I would sit out if given the choice.
by australopithecine on Apr 3, 2009 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions
official injury report at Garmin website
about all three (Caldwell, Tuft, and Friedman), including before and after surgery x-ray pics for Caldwell

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