Cycling: Kuchynski suffers fractured wrist
Suffering a fractured bone in his wrist during a crash on the race’s fifth stage
SAINT-QUENTIN:
Belarusian Aliaksandr Kuchynski will try to continue in the Tour de France despite suffering a fractured bone in his wrist during a crash on the race’s fifth stage, his Katusha team said yesterday. Kuchynski crashed at the end of the 196 km stage from Rouen to Saint Quentin which took down several riders. Germany’s Tony Martin, the world time trial champion who rides for Omega-Pharma, suffered the same kind of injury on Sunday’s opening stage but has managed to continue in the race. So far, four riders have pulled out of the 198-strong peloton which started the three-week Tour - Maarten Tjallingii (Rabobank), Jose Joaquin Rojas (Movistar) and Kanstantsin Sivtsov (Team Sky) — all because of injuries suffered in crashes.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 7th, 2012.
Belarusian Aliaksandr Kuchynski will try to continue in the Tour de France despite suffering a fractured bone in his wrist during a crash on the race’s fifth stage, his Katusha team said yesterday. Kuchynski crashed at the end of the 196 km stage from Rouen to Saint Quentin which took down several riders. Germany’s Tony Martin, the world time trial champion who rides for Omega-Pharma, suffered the same kind of injury on Sunday’s opening stage but has managed to continue in the race. So far, four riders have pulled out of the 198-strong peloton which started the three-week Tour - Maarten Tjallingii (Rabobank), Jose Joaquin Rojas (Movistar) and Kanstantsin Sivtsov (Team Sky) — all because of injuries suffered in crashes.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 7th, 2012.