{"id":16102,"date":"2018-03-17T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2018\/03\/17\/mark-cavendish-escapes-serious-injury-in-milan-sanremo-crash-r7183\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T06:06:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T06:06:29","slug":"mark-cavendish-escapes-serious-injury-in-milan-sanremo-crash-r7183","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/mark-cavendish-escapes-serious-injury-in-milan-sanremo-crash-r7183\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Cavendish escapes serious injury in Milan-Sanremo crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka can confirm that, thankfully, Mark Cavendish sustained no serious injury following a major crash within 10 kilometres of the finish of Milan-Sanremo on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-67410600-1521321457.jpg\" data-fileid=\"1178950\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"1178950\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-67410600-1521321457.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-67410600-1521321457.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old fell heavily after striking a bollard and was immediately assisted by race medical personnel, after which he was taken to a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Following medical imaging, it was determined that he avoided major injury in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He did sustain a new rib fracture (5th) on the same side as the one that he damaged in the opening stage of Tirreno-Adriatico (7th).<\/p>\n<p>He also has bruising and abrasions consistent with the scale of the crash as well as a possible \u201cligamentous ankle injury\u201d that will require further assessment once he returns home on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The team would like to extend a big thanks to everybody who has sent messages of concern; and we will keep you updated as and when, should additional information become available.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xlBnPy0-lXc?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka can confirm that, thankfully, Mark Cavendish sustained no serious injury following a major crash within 10 kilometres of the finish of Milan-Sanremo on Saturday. The 32-year-old fell heavily after striking a bollard and was immediately assisted by race medical personnel, after which he was taken to a local hospital. Following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[713,553],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-16102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-dimension-data","tag-mark-cavendish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16102"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=16102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}