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Soler Airlifted to hospital with brain injuries

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  • #2
    Esroh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Esroh


    I really hope he will be ok.
    I started cycling in 07 and his TDFstage win got me hooked on watching.


  • #3
    sy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,653 ✭✭✭sy


    Was delighted to see him back winning again, just love to see him dancing on the pedals, he was a breath of fresh air in the 2007 TDF when he won a stage and the KOM jersey on his first attempt. Injuries prevented him riding the past few tours. Lets hope he is ok and makes a full recovery. Bones will mend but brain injuries are very worrying. Movistar are really have a terrible year


  • #4
    Bunnyhopper
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    Hope he's ok. There's some info on the Movistar blog at
    http://cyclingteammovistar.wordpress.com/


  • #5
    ColSheehan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 112 ✭✭ColSheehan


    Thoughts go out to him after a horrible crash. Just when we all thought his injury period was finished and he was back to the same form as the 2007 Tour this happens. Really hope he can recover from his injuries this time though. Cycling has had two really hard months already this year :(


  • #6
    Funkyzeit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭Funkyzeit


    Seems to be out of danger anyway thankfully.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cycling/13808787.stm

    Doctors have reduced medication to Juan Mauricio Soler, seriously injured in a crash during the Tour of Switzerland, after his condition improved.

    The 28-year-old Movistar rider remains in an induced coma following the crash on Thursday during the sixth stage.

    But, after Soler made "favourable" progress on Friday, doctors said on Saturday that the swelling in his brain appeared to be coming down.

    The Colombian also fractured his skull and broke his ankle in the accident.

    "The health status of Juan Mauricio Soler has further stabilised and there are no signs for an intracranial pressure, which is considered by the doctors as a positive sign," official race doctor Roland Kretsch said after consulting with hospital doctors in Saint Gallen.

    Soler crashed in the village of Gloten, 11 km (seven miles) into the sixth stage.

    "All of a sudden there was a footpath with a five-centimetre edge dropping to the road level," Australian rider Baden Cooke told the Associated Press. "Soler had no time to brake at all."

    Soler fell on to a spectator and then smashed into a fence, suffering multiple fractures as well as bleeding on the brain.

    "The fence did not move at all so Soler took the full impact," added Cooke.


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