Boonen banged up
Tom Boonen (Quick.Step-Innergetic)
Photo ©: Sirotti
"A cruel accident" is how Tom Boonen described his crash at the
Vattenfall Cyclassics, 19 kilometres before the finish line. The TV
cameras lingered a long time on the Quick.Step-Innergetic star as he
remained on the ground, nursing his injuries. But he was eventually
able to get back on his bike and ride over the finish line.
Everything hurt, he said, but there was another reason he took so long
to get up. "Probably a bike or something hit me in the head, because
everything was spinning," he told Sportwereld.be. And really
everything did hurt: "My left elbow, my right knee, my toes, my thigh,
my hands, my shoulders."
But he evidently suffered nothing worse than bumps and bruises, and in
fact, on Sunday evening flew home. His plan for the week was to check
out the Worlds course in Stuttgart. "That was the plan, yes. Now I
don't know."