during the last two stages of my milram story i've suffered from 2 cases of what can only be described as phantom injuries. On stage 2 of the Tour of Romandie my leader Ghisalberti suddenly sat up and stopped riding and abandoned the tour. As you would expect i was quite pissed off, but i was even more pissed off when i was informed that he had a broken rib and would be out till the end of May.
On stage 3 the same thing happend to Cristian Kux. He simply stopped ridding before i was informed he had dislocated his elbow!! whats going on? it's never happened before and now all of a sudden twice in two stages.
It's not only my riders either. On stage 2 a Tinkoff rider also sat up and stopped before suffering a bad injury. Can anyone explain what is going on?
When they get injured enough to abandon their fall isn't animated so it looks like they have just stopped riding, did the tinkoff rider stop very close to ghisalberti? cause they might have been involved in a crash together but got unlucky.
no, another tinkoff rider fell and got up again and he just stopped. why isn't it annimated? just seemed a bit odd that it had never happened before and now it happened twice in 2 days. 3 times if you include the tinkoff rider.
Edited by ringo182 on 14-11-2008 13:09
yeah you arevery unlucky to have 3 riders injured in 2 days. The lack of animation is frustrating, it would be better if cyanide had just animated a rider fall off and not get back up. I have had a few of my riders injured in mass crashes like that and it is really frustrating.
