Collarbonewatch
- Thor Hushovd
- Martin Kohler
- Christian Vande Velde
- Dmytro Grabovskyy
- (more TBA)
about 2 years ago
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What are you watching?
Collarbones broken in the Giro (Hushovd should not be there).
Broken this month? This season?
What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.
I don't know. Collarbones broken in the last three days?
I knew about Hushovd’s, saw Vande Velde crashed today, and then read on Velonews that Grabovskyy had broken his, so I just thought “this is a bad week”. I’m not creating a database or anything.
What is the deal with the pros always breaking their collarbones?
When I crash, it’s always my knees or my head that gets messed up. Am I doing something wrong?
Cycling will always be a beautiful sport no matter how many people disgrace it.--Christian Vande Velde
that was funny...but then I recall I have yet to snap my own collarbone...
…so, now I am offended (albeit, also very slow).
The artist formerly known as jf(bunchofnumbers).
by JustJoshinYa on May 10, 2010 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions
understand what?
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by JustJoshinYa on May 10, 2010 10:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, I know THAT...
But my question (not altogether facetious) is, why is it always (OK, not always, but really often) their collarbones that they break, and not other bones?
Cycling will always be a beautiful sport no matter how many people disgrace it.--Christian Vande Velde
The force of impact goes through the shoulders
when you fall on your butt or wrists. Skinny doesn’t help. We had a girl at work last year who started running on her high heels, slipped and fell hard straight down. Result: a 2003 Tyler-Hamilton style double fracture of the collarbone. She’s about 5’7", maybe 110 lbs. Stayed home on sick leave for over two months.
Normal size folk are lucky that way. I make Cancellara look like Fat Schleck. Crashed at 30-50 kph several times and never felt a thing in the shoulders. The guy who I ride with who looks like Sylvester Szmyd’s twin…three breaks in 18 months.
by Mr 60 Percent on May 10, 2010 8:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Okay
The posts about interesting work, fantastic travel, that was all cool, but this:
We had a girl at work last year who started running on her high heels [ . . . ] She’s about 5’7", maybe 110 lbs
sent me right over the line into work envy. I want your job.
LOL. Paid for this with a year-plus at the Baghdad Monastery
Now life is good. Craving a Five Guys burger today though.
by Mr 60 Percent on May 10, 2010 9:45 PM EDT up reply actions
At the rate they're
expanding, I think you only need to wait a few weeks.
(when I landed in DC, there were 3 Five Guys locations. Now I find them in random airports halfway across the country.)
(Also, Elevation Burger is where it’s at. Or so I’ve been told.)
Five years ago upon re-entry
it was the same deal. What do you mean Chipotle isn’t cool anymore? Eating a barbacoa burrito while listening to Jeff Buckley and Joe Strummer seemed like heaven. Alas, progress. Even Jon Vaughters moved on.
by Mr 60 Percent on May 10, 2010 10:08 PM EDT up reply actions
You ever been to a Chipotle next to a high school?(so every one)
it’s still cool in some circles.
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by Mr 60 Percent on May 11, 2010 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions
2 pros in America busted their collarbones at one of the hardest criteriums in the country on Sunday
at Joe Martin Stage race. Kyle Wamsley busted his along with some teeth and Jason Donald, former Garmin, busted his up as well.
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
Zero days.
See Tyler Hamilton. Wasn’t there another rider who recently didn’t tell the team so he could finish the race? Of course a clean break you will have to stop riding.
Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. Louis J. Helle, Jr.
Hincapie in last year's Tour.
From what I remember, he wouldn’t even have it checked out until after the Tour finished.
Das ist hier nicht Tralala--Rolf Aldag, expressing disappointment that Andre Greipel didn't try harder in Eschborn-Frankfurt
Nope
it was his collarbone. Refuse to have it xrayed.
by cyclingdiva on May 11, 2010 12:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Depends...you can be on the turbo trainer after only a couple of days or you can be laid up for a few weeks...
depends on the severity of the break.
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
by Vlaanderen90 on May 10, 2010 8:14 PM EDT up reply actions
No, lifetime count for broken collarbones.
While I’ve had a few nasty spills on the road, my annual allotment of injuries comes in the dirt. Around late July early/August. I’ll try to make this year’s worth a good post.
So, which do you think is worse...
Collarbone break
or
Tapeworm
The artist formerly known as jf(bunchofnumbers).
This is just WAY too much information...
and yet I’m laughing at the sheer grotesqueness of the whole thing. I’d take the collarbone any time!
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
"He was a big part of my life for a few years, apparently," Day said.
Ewww, it was there for years?! That’s just grim. I’m squirming just thinking about it. Yucky yuck!
i don't know what's worse: Day sharing or Velo publishing...
It’s funny though… I’m sorry, I’m transfixed by the horror.
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
I kind of am too,
but a can’t get the image of the poor guy pulling the thing from his rear out of my head 4ft long??!! Eeek.
Revolting, repulsive... and somehow compelling reading..
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
At least they
put a warning at the beginning of that story.
by cyclingdiva on May 11, 2010 12:49 PM EDT up reply actions
That is probably the best story I've read on Velonews in a long time
"Do you think we are a bunch a girls?...Go and ride some cobbles and you’ll definately know that we don’t discuss perfume and shaving cream." - Dom
I'm impervious.. ;)
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Hmm...
Maybe there needs to be another sidebar around here chronicling all these broken clavicles.
Russian Vladimir Karpets is not only known for his mullet but also for his radical facial hair; he is not known for much else.
Christian VandeVelde
“the collarbone is in three pieces! Throwing a plate on that bad boy in a few hours. See you on the other side.”
That was his tweet Monday, and after the surgery it was -
“Surgery was a success. 8 screws and a plate, I am now bionic on both sides.”
http://twitter.com/christianvdv
Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. Louis J. Helle, Jr.
I saw it reported that Thor's surgery...
…was successful too.
Team doctor said:
"It will take time for Thor to fully recover. It was a difficult fracture but he had a good surgery at the CrossKlinik in Basel. I am very pleased that he could have the operation here, where we have perfect surroundings and the best staff. The recovery phase will start today already, with some indoor training at Thor’s home in Monaco."
The artist formerly known as jf(bunchofnumbers).
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