🇫🇷 RACE: @LeTour @MarkCavendish broke his right collarbone. Moreover because of the fracture an ostesynthesis screw in the acromioclavicular joint (being there since his crash in 2017 Tour de France) is loose. #TDF2023 #AstanaQazaqstanTeam
UPDATE: Broken collarbone confirmed for Mark Cavendish after Tour de France crash
CyclingSunday, 09 July 2023 at 10:19
Mark Cavendish has abandoned the 2023 Tour de France on stage 8. The 'Manx Missile' was riding his final Tour and came agonizingly close to taking victory on stage 7.
Sadly now though, his quest to break Eddy Merckx's stage win record has ended in tears. At a seemingly innocuous point in the race, the Astana Qazaqstan Team leader hit the deck hard and was quickly taken into an ambulance to go off for further tests.
Cavendish had been chasing what would have been a record-breaking 35th stage win at cycling's most illustrious race. After announcing his impending retirement at the recent Giro d'Italia, this was Cavendish's final chance to make history.
Without wishing to look too far ahead too soon, one must now question whether this is the last we will see of the undisputed, greatest sprinter of all time in the World Tour peloton.
UPDATE: Astana Qazaqstan Team have confirmed that the Manxman has suffered a fractured collarbone. In addition to that he now has an ostesynthesis screw loose.
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- I think you overestimate scientific knowledge and for sure the spreading of it. There are huge numbers of people in similar situations, if there were an easy solution somebody would be making big money out of it. Nerve pain can have many complex origins or be due to complex combinations of reasons. Even if you discover a reason there is not always a solution. Migraines haven’t been solved either. I have had lower back/hip nerve pains on and off for over 30 years, no kind of doctor has ever found a way to reduce, prevent or solve the problem. It may just be that some people are born with nerves that are too short or get twisted out of position during certain movements.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- Amazing ride by her and very promising for her future. On a side note, it’s a bit worrying all these wins riders have after emotional moments in their lives, someone will come up with emotional doping at some point. Maybe give them fake news just before a big race to get hormones pumping.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- I doubt he will have the energy to do that if he continues to do leadout for Phillipsenabstractengineer22-12-2024
- I know several people who’ve tried contacting sport airbag manufacturers and none of them ever got a reply. Might be hard to organise anything with such attitudes.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- It's the BBC. Who cares outside of little Britain.leodis22-12-2024
- Crawl back under your stone.leodis22-12-2024
- Thanks Dadmobk22-12-2024
- Hard to believe with the advancment of modern medicine he can not find a cause for this.frieders321-12-2024
- You continue to platform these two cheats. With that in mind I can no longer use your site. I know my leaving means little, but, sometimes you have to take a stand. See ya!DJ21-12-2024