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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6890
Location: Maine11/23/21 11:32 AM |
Me & Cav
Broken ribs and a collapsed lung - I’ve had that outcome from 2 separate crashes.
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LeeW
Joined: 13 Jan 2004
Posts: 453
Location: near Baltimore, MD11/24/21 7:25 AM |
Interesting journalism.
It says Cav's injuries were treated with medication. LOL.
Pain medication!?. They don't typically treat a pneumo with just medication. Been there, done that, also. If that is true, they must be talking about a lung puncture so minor that it sealed itself??? Maybe Cav had some Stan's inside his lungs?
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX11/24/21 10:07 AM |
Kinda reads like no drain was needed.
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LeeW
Joined: 13 Jan 2004
Posts: 453
Location: near Baltimore, MD11/25/21 9:53 AM |
It does indeed sound like Cav missed out on a lovely chest tube. However, they likely gave him one of those devices you inhale thru a mouthpiece to raise the piston inside the cylinder. Those things are painful when your lung is punctured. What do they call those ? S-something-meter??
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX11/25/21 10:43 AM |
I hope you never need the upgraded Voldyne 9000. ;)
Like Contador, Cav is a rider I was always MEH about, yet felt different last years of careers some how manifesting a modicum of adoration..
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5101
Location: Nashua, NH11/26/21 4:04 PM |
Well, it seems that all the issues he's had in recent years have helped him transform from a self-important, reckless, douche back to his original mode of being stunned and grateful for every result he gets. As much as I disliked him for years, I have to say that he's apparently back to being a respectable human being.
That said, I still don't want him to break Merckx's stage win record, unless he does it in a TT or a climbing stage. It just seems wrong to lose the record to a one-trick-pony.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX11/26/21 8:26 PM |
Yeah, Merckx had a lot of solo mountain stage wins. So the 'comparative' maybe not so fair of one...
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5101
Location: Nashua, NH11/27/21 9:35 AM |
In my mind, it's not even close. Merckx could do it all and didn't need to be sheltered and shepherded to the end of a stage in order to win. The only one I can think of in today's peloton who's got that versatility is Wout Van Aert (another Belgian, of course).
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