This Friday began one of the maximum appointments of the year within the cycling with the Giro de Italia In the center of the scene. The competition, which will last for more than three weeks and will travel four countries, accompanies the main billboard of 2025 with the Francia Tour and the Back to Spain Between July and next September, and the beginning of the first stage of the competition had an injured closure with a obligatory abandonment.
Mikel Rural35 years and team member Soudal Quick-Stepstarred in a serious clash in a curve to the left of the route in the absence of five kilometers for the end of the initial section with Jay Vine y Geoffrey Bouchardbut the worst part was taken by the Basque corridor, which reached twice the podium of this tournament, after being third in 2015 and 2022.
Landa He received immediate medical assistance, a Orthopedic neck Around his head, he had to be removed on a stretcher with visible gestures of pain and his continuity in the race was discarded. “Mikel Landa’s accident five kilometers from the end in the Tour of Italy. We will return with an update on it as soon as we have it,” wrote the authorities of Soudal Quick-Step In official networks after the event.
More than half an hour from that publication, they added another post: “#Forzamikel. Our pilot has been transferred to the hospital to perform tests after the accident that ended his dreams in the Italian turn”The rigor exams in the medical establishment of the Albana de Tirana capital have thrown out that suffered the rupture of the vertebra t11according to the newspaper Sports world. This Saturday will do more studies. The morning Mark He added that he must remain in lying position (looking down) and must have supervision of the specialists before starting their recovery.
The early game of the 21st of the ranking marked the opening of the 108th edition of the competition, which has three days scheduled in Albania before moving to Italy, its natural territory. It will also travel parts of Slovenia and the Vatican during the more than 3,400 kilometers to travel among the remaining 20 stages. Everything will end on June 1 in Rome.
Hours before starting his participation in the Giro de Italia, Mikel Landa had counted in talk with Mark because he decided to compete in the appointment after three years of absence: “It was time to return to this turn. I had not been going for several years. The last time I did it on the podium and it was time to return. If not, maybe in 2026 it may be late”.
Next, the corridor declared that it could be his “Last opportunity” to get on the podium in a large race, after Tadej Pogacarnumber 1 in the world, it has been lowered with a view to arriving optimally to the Tour de France (July 5 to 27). “It is the race in which I exploded as a big launder runner. Every time I return there I return with a smile, although I have also had hard moments. I think it is a very special race,” Landa said about the turn. However, nothing could be as I dreamed.
In his career, the athlete won the return to Burgos in the 2017 and 2021 editions, reached the fourth place of the Tour de France (2017 and 2020), he was fifth in 2024 and closed in the fifth placement of the return to Spain 2023.
The first stage of Giro de Italia The Danish stayed Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) With a brief difference of four seconds over the Belgian Wout van Aert (Team Visma-Lease a Bike) Six seconds from Venezuelan Orluis Aular (Movistar Team). The second will be the shortest of the turn with 13.7 kilometers to travel inside Tirana.
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