Evenepoel after his accident: “It will take me time to recover, but I will come back stronger”

BRUSSELS — The Belgian cyclist and double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel, who underwent surgery after suffering a “terrifying” accident while training this Tuesday, assured that he is fine and eager to return strongeralthough the recovery will be long.

“It will be a long road, but I am completely focused on my recovery and determined to come back stronger, step by step,” the 24-year-old athlete wrote on social media after being hospitalized yesterday, Tuesday, after crashing into the door of a van. the Belgian postal company in the town of Oetingen.

Evenepoel, who He published a photograph on Instagram in which he appears smiling in a hospital bed with his right arm in a sling.explained that he has suffered “a fracture of the rib, the shoulder blade, the hand, bruises on the lungs and a dislocation of the right clavicle that caused the tear of all the surrounding ligaments.”

“After a terrifying accident while training yesterday, I underwent surgery last night and everything went well (…). The comeback begins now,” added the Soudal Quick-Step cyclist, gold at the Paris Games in time trial and on the road, world time trial champion and third in the Tour de France.

The Belgian cyclist already suffered a serious fall in the Giro de Lombardia in 2020 when he collided with a protrusion of the wall of a bridge that threw him forward.

Evenepoel then plunged about five meters into the void and landed in a wooded area, suffering a contusion to his lungs and fracturing his pelvis, in an incident that kept him away from the competition for several months.