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tuffers#1 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 6:04 pm Broke his Femur after hitting wall

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/48612884

tuffers#1 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2019 6:02 pm Supposedly in Intensive care .
Hope he gets through this ok
But having seen the news clip of him minutes before not heeding a warning about unnecessary risk by taking his hands off the handlebars while putting his jacket on whilst on flat road , it does make you question his judgement why he would do so again on a downhill section of the ride.

Sid Bishop wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2019 1:02 pm

tuffers#1 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2019 6:02 pm Supposedly in Intensive care .
Hope he gets through this ok
But having seen the news clip of him minutes before not heeding a warning about unnecessary risk by taking his hands off the handlebars while putting his jacket on whilst on flat road , it does make you question his judgement why he would do so again on a downhill section of the ride.

Habit, if people get away with doing the same things again and again, they begin to think they are ''Immortal'' and immune from from anything bad ever happening to them !! Well this time, Froome did not get away with '' taking his hands off the handlebars while putting his jacket on whilst on flat road'' and suffered massive injuries for making this mistake. I think it will be a lot harder to get back to his pre-injury level than he seems to be thinking at the moment. The body, especially back and joint injuries, do not heal as easily as some people seem to think. When you are fit and young you seem to think you are an ''immortal'' When a bad injury actually does happen, it can be a big life changer !!

tuffers#1 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2019 2:40 pm

Sid Bishop wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2019 1:02 pm

tuffers#1 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2019 6:02 pm Supposedly in Intensive care .
Hope he gets through this ok
But having seen the news clip of him minutes before not heeding a warning about unnecessary risk by taking his hands off the handlebars while putting his jacket on whilst on flat road , it does make you question his judgement why he would do so again on a downhill section of the ride.

Habit, if people get away with doing the same things again and again, they begin to think they are ''Immortal'' and immune from from anything bad ever happening to them !! Well this time, Froome did not get away with '' taking his hands off the handlebars while putting his jacket on whilst on flat road'' and suffered massive injuries for making this mistake. I think it will be a lot harder to get back to his pre-injury level than he seems to be thinking at the moment. The body, especially back and joint injuries, do not heal as easily as some people seem to think. When you are fit and young you seem to think you are an ''immortal'' When a bad injury actually does happen, it can be a big life changer !!

All well & good on Fine days Sid .
But when its blowing a gale ?

Smacks of irresponsibility by him.

The money his team pay him & pump into the team to support him has all been literally half wasted.
Now its all on GT's shoulders.

Still it should make for a fairer tour now the biggest budget will be down to 1 race winner & not 2 are taking part.

Disoriented wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2019 8:31 pm What are they going to do with all those jiffy bags now?

tuffers#1 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2019 8:48 pm

Disoriented wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2019 8:31 pm What are they going to do with all those jiffy bags now?

Send them to the Hospital ?

Disoriented wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2019 9:02 pm

tuffers#1 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2019 8:48 pm

Disoriented wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2019 8:31 pm What are they going to do with all those jiffy bags now?

Send them to the Hospital ?

Hospitals would require them to be labelled.

Lovejoy wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2019 4:23 pm Fractured bones in his neck and lost 4 pints of blood, it must have been some crash.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/cycling ... spartanntp

tuffers#1 wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2020 5:48 pm https://www.rte.ie/sport/cycling/2020/0 ... re-tested/

2017 tour
Doping to be re-tested .

Maybe the brown bag will be relevant after all.