Robbie McEwen has had no luck this year. First up he had a sickening crash in Grand Prix de l’Escau, where he literally bounces off the road at 60kph and unbelievably, suffered mostly bruising and battering. This slow-motion video shows it well – Robbie is at the front, just right of centre, behind the yellow flag, in the blue nicks and white jersey. He’s the one that goes down REAL, HARD ….
After watching that crash you’d be forgiven for thinking Robbie’s season was over. But he was training the very next day (on the rollers) which shows just how tuff those little Aussies are. But now it DOES look like his season could be over – he’s most certainly out of the Tour de France.
And the irony is, in this latest stack Robbie didn’t even “hit the deck”. But while it looked pretty harmeless the injury is really bad – which tends to happen when your knee collects a stationary object while you’re traveling at +55kph. And while his post-crash Tweet wasn’t too pessimistic, it’s far from great news.