Oops, Degenkolb has ripped his arse
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EDIT: Just read the quote
Questioned this morning by letour.fr, Christian Guiberteau who is a directeur sportif for Giant-Shimano gave alarming news about John Degenkolb. The winner of Gent-Wevelgem had high ambitions for tomorrow’s stage to Nancy with a hill preceding the finishing line but he’s seriously injured. “John has a 2cm muscle thorn in his bum. He managed to walk better this morning than last night. But his confidence is affected now. He’s taking the start but in the unknown. It’s going to be very painful. Normally, such an injury has to be treated by resting but he doesn’t want to quit. On the other hand, Marcel Kittel doesn’t suffer any consequence of his two crashes yesterday. Only one thigh is a little bit injured but nothing that prevent him from sprinting today, so we’ll do our best for another bunch sprint finish in Reims because this is his last occasion to win until quite a long time from now. Tomorrow’s finale in Nancy is too hard for him. It was ideal… for John, but… So we’ll put our Chinese rider Ji Cheng at the head of the peloton again today. Yesterday, I followed him on the cobblestones when he was alone at the back because he had some problems to put a rain coat on and he lost contact with the group he was in. He was riding on a too small gear so I advised him to put a bigger one on. He had taken part in Paris-Roubaix before but in wet conditions, it was a very technical exercise. He did well though. We should see him in action as a breakaway killer again.”
