The guy is actually a GOAT without knowing it

100,000 + km riding give a man a LOT of experience

Amen for that!

There are only two types of cyclists: those that have crashed and those that are going to crash.

@@ianjlilly even on a Zwift indoor setup!🤭🤭😗

I was thinking Wout's rib fractures might be nondisplaced because he didn't have a collapsed or punctured lung, but I know that is not necessarily accurate. Remembering back to Julian Alaphilippe's injury he had rib fractures and also a hemo pneumothorax, which I think is a punctured collapsed lung with blood in the chest cavity, (correct me if I'm wrong) and a fractured shoulder blade and it took him a long time to just come back.

Nobody uses the term compound. Its open or closed

​@@danshort10millions of people around the world use the term "compound fracture" How old are you?

You shouldn't have commented. Now I want to see all other crash videos commented by you in the future. That was a nice explanation sir!

@@roddas26medical professionals dont. I’m 40, not sure why that’s relevant

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Is that something like a davenport?

Always wonder what he means by that…like a sofa/ couch?

He's talking about his couch.

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Yep. That was Schock if I remember correctly, I just finished watching it cause I’m a couple events/weekends behind still. 👊🦋💪

Most definitely the most painful. I didn't even know pain like this existed or was surviveable. I'm two weeks in with several busted ribs. Worst injury wver.

You're 100% correct. I had a fractured rib and sneezing was painful for sure.

Very soon let’s hope 🙏🦋🤞

It's true and when you're hot you're hot and Matteo could surprise us all, again. 😀

The thing is everybody is watching MVDP, that opens it up for attacks from far.

Who do you think can beat MvDP?

At least MVDP doesn’t have some super crazy strong team behind him. That will keep the racing exciting. 👊🦋

Doctors never once told me I could train right away after I crashed and fractured my ribs. They never want to be sued later and always go on the caution side of rehabilitation. But if the ribs are only fractured and stable you can always train on a trainer very soon if not right away. Outside training is too much for sure but then maybe ten days only is needed for easy non racing training. If we don’t see Wout training right away we know he has a major break. 🤔🦋🤞🙏

dr. Tom Claes and his brother prof. dr. Steven Claes, PhD from Herentals are not your average doctors and have a lot of expertise. I tend to believe the bad news that came out of their mouths. Hope you're right.

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Dude, so unbelievably painful. Pain I didn't know existed. The only thing that comes close is a herniated disc I had. My kids try to make me laugh because it makes them laugh when I start crying from the pain.

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One rider always crashes more than the rest it seems every year. 😬🦋

That’s a personal question that each rider has to make but more often then not the rider picks to race soon if the objective is an important one. 🤔🦋👍

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Are you implying he’s faking injury, and needs to be bribed to take part in the Tour de France?

I’m implying that Jonas hasn’t won a Tour without Wout on the squad. I’m implying that Wout turns himself inside out stage after stage which drastically increases Jonas’ performance and sucks the life out of the other teams. I’m implying that while Jonas maybe externally bummed about Wout’s crash, internally his probably high five-ing himself as Wout is all but guaranteed to now ride the Tour which caused the rest of the Tour peloton to externally and internally let out you’ve got to be f’ing kidding me. Wout is a beast and from a team standpoint they need him more than he needs them. While Jonas is getting paid fat stacks I’m implying that if I was Jonas I would and would’ve had a conversation with Wout before schedules were announced where I’d offer some extra Euros if he rode the tour, whether that personal dollars or sponsorship team up outside of the team. Prior to this crash Jonas was heading to the Tour without Primo and Wout. It would be foolish to think that those moves wouldn’t negatively impact him. Add in Kuss hasn’t yet returned to top 10 form yet. Stress level in getting high and Wout going to the Tour would bring a sense of calm.

@@dorianwaller8796 Jonas rode last year’s tour without Primoz. Not sure why he would need him this year. Wout would be a great assett on any team as TDF support but last year he was less than stellar.

@@dorianwaller8796 As a belgian said, wout focus will probably be on the olympics now. Wout is fantastic and he was really crucial on the coubble stage(i think stage 4 or 5) tour 22, when he gave up a probable stage win for himself and helped Jonas not to loose too much time to Pogi after a mechanical problem changing bikes. Tour 22 he was crazy strong. But then Jonas gave him a stage win back in the last ITT tour 22. (One of the only times wout has cried, when he got gifted the stage by Jonas) (Thats helping each other in nice balanced way on a team)Dont get me wrong. Wout is fantastic. I love him and of course he makes any team on the planet much stronger. But to say that Jonas Tour wins would not have happened without wout is in my opinion wrong. Jonas is just so much stronger the anybody in week 3 in a GT, that he without any accidents right now will win 9 out of 10 GTs with mountain stages or hilly ITTs placed in week 3. eventually a new young phantom will ariive on the scene(maybe ayuso in a few years), but instill then forget it. He will win without incidents every GT he will attend instill then. With or without, Wout, Roglic or KUSS. Jonas bloomed late(in my opinion because of low self esteem). and he is still getting stronger His only weaknees in my opinion is his humble nature, being too nice., not greedy enough Gifting a Grand tour away. Ohhh my god. Thats just stupid. He could learn alot from Pogi being hungry for victories. hopefully Wout will come back stronger and most important win a Monument(he derserves that and should have had one already, my bet not being belgian, is that he biggest dream is the flanders, so lets hope next year. Pogi fans forget one thing(im actually a big Pogi fan myself) Pogi knows that he cannot win against Jonas in week 3, without any incidents. Jonas has won in week 3 all 3 tours they have completed against each other. And of course being Pogi you cannot have 3 years in a row without a GT win, and he knows that his chance in the tour and the vuelta where Jonas attends is going to be very difficult, so of course he will choose The giro, evverybody would and with the rooster this year. He got that one in the bag of palmares. He is the best road racer right now on the planet, but Jonas is by far the best stage racer on the planet right now. He just do not like too much attention and media. But believe me, he has the potential and with no bad luck to get 8-11 GT wins and then be one of the best stage racers in history. My prediction for Jonas 5 tours, 3 vueltas, 1 giro. My prediction for Pogi. 3 tours(it would be great if he wins one more late in his carreer. 3 giros and 1 vuelta. He will in my opinion try to win every big race on the world tour. I really think this is his goal iinclusive the olympics and the rainbow wc of course, and he will probably make it. Its exiting times to be a cycling fan. But make the races more safe for the raiders please.

@@dorianwaller8796 Wout is for sure a beast. i love him. But to imply that Jonas would not have won without him is wrong. Tour 22, wout gave up the coupple stage(i think stage 4 or 5, which he probably would have won) to help Jonas not losing too much time to Pogi after jonas had a mechanical. Then Jonas gifted him the stage win the ITT stage 20 tour 22. Wout cried on camara for one of the few times in his life in gratitude for Jonas gift to him. Thats balanced team work. and gifts) Wout was a unbelievable beast tour 22. tour 23 not so much for his standards. The fact is that Jonas is just that much stronger in week 3 than anybody else. And he has and will win the tour with no bad luck or accidents with or without wout, Roglic or Kuss for that matter. Tour 24(again with all healthy and no incidents. If we are lucky it will be close instill stage 19, then Jonas will destroy everybody by minutes in stage 19 and stage 21(Hilly ITT). Dont get me wrong, he needs a teams(everybody does, even pogi. (actually think Pogi had the better team in tour 23 or at least equal.) I think Jonas will win between 8-11 Gts in his carrer. My guess at least 5 tours, 3 Vueltas and one giro, Pogi will win hopefully one last Tour late in his carreer. So 3 tours, 1 vuelta and 2 giros. I do think Pogi will try as his carreer goal to win every major race on tour including olympics and WC rainbow, and he will probably succeed. Pogi will become one of the best ever, maybe the best, since mercxk did in a time where it was easier to do(my opinion)and jonas maybe the best ever GT racer since he had to compete against the GOAT and still beat him so many times. Why do u think Pogi choose the giro. 1. he has not won it yet. 2. He knows he will probably not beat The GT s Jonas is in. He has never beaten Jonas in a GT 3rd week and probably never will. Thats my opinion, but time will tell and one thing is for sure. I have watched road race cycling since mid 1980 s and right now is in my opinion the most exiting times to be a cycling fan that i have experienced. We are so blessed with great talents and almost every race is a firework of aggressiveness, and opportunistic racing. I LOVE IT

I've had broken collar bone and 3rd degree separation and 4th degree separation on shoulders but my broken ribs were by far the worst injury I have ever had from bicycle racing.

Yep. I have lived that experience. 😬🦋👊

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Facts don't care about feelings.

I seriously doubt Chris knows about their feelings aside from being upset their Classics seasons are over.

I never once worried about how much pain I was in. I only wondered when will I be able to start training again and then what’s the next race I can make and be good at. My heart never once played a part in it except, I felt a bad for my wife cause I was not going to be especially happy for a very long time now. 😂🦋👊❤️

WVA has broken his clavicle (AKA collar bone), and had already been operated for that by one of the best sports doctors in Europe, and has also broken/cracked 7 ribs, and cracked his sternum, but I've read nowhere that he has also broken his scapula (AKA shoulder blade).... It's bad enough as it is.

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You are right that a fracture = a break, you are wrong about the sternum… if you have ever witnessed a sternal saw chopping through it at the beginning of cardiac surgery, you would know this… perhaps you are thinking of the xiphisternum? This is the inferior bit but the sternum is most definitely a bone

Hopefully Wout only has small fractures left after the collar bone was plated. 🤞🦋

Dude stop letting it hit the back of your throat lmao

@@jj-uk3qn imagine being so upset, you made a new account, just to trash talk. Lol.

@@mikedittsche all that ball licking and could not even get a courtesy like lol

@@jj-uk3qn look at you, getting mad on the internet 😆

@@mikedittsche keep writing down these soliloquies I am sure Daddy doper will acknowledge you in no time

and it would be another wasted year of donkey work for Jonas. Dont think Wout likes his legacy to be remembered as Jonas' domestique

@@WanderingSwordhe would be part of another TDF victory at least. I feel for the domestiques of Pogi that will get flogged only to be criticized again.

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I won’t argue with you. 💪🦋👍

Soon. 🤞🙏🦋

Ow come on, he won’t stop cycling because of this. That’s completely made up.

They're not superhuman healers. After all, look at Froome and Bernal.

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You and me both. I had to wait almost a month!

Sometimes it’s the tendons that get torn and can slow things way down recovery wise also. 🤞🦋

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I’m just happy I never got a cold at the same time. 😬😜🦋👊

Or sneezing 😢, or laughing. Or coughing...

They really affect your sleep and you never enjoy a good shower for sometime assuming there is no infection. Fitness is more affected by the impact of the crash its self. If possible always slide more during your crash and life will be uncomfortable for some time but you can still go to work. 👊🦋😂

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Yep - think his season is over if he wants to ride at his optimum level - hopefully not

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But why would he? He was right there when the crash happened and knew Wout wasn't finishing the race. Anyone who saw the footage on TV would know Wout wasn't finishing the race. People are dumb.

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Probably he prefers training for liege and the giro and also avoiding the risk of a crash at rvv.

You mean Matteo.

Yes.