Final 12 months Lars van den Berg rode round within the Tour de France. As a teenager within the group with Thibaut Pinot and David Gaudu, amongst others, he was amazed by France. The Utrechter from Groupama-FDJ is busy with one thing utterly completely different this 12 months: rehabilitation. Firstly of this season he fell in a foul method in a French race. On Monday night he was a visitor in The Night Stage. There he informed how he was doing.
‘I am doing higher and higher, luckily’, started Marijn’s brother, who’s driving the Tour this 12 months. ‘The autumn was in February. I did not really feel nicely on the bike after which grew to become unconscious. Happily, I had little injury by way of wounds or fractures. After that, I had numerous exams within the hospital. Final week I fastidiously began on the Tacx. I am glad I used to be in a position to watch Marijn the previous couple of days. It was good to see him, additionally at the moment on the remaining day.’
Van den Berg’s persistence put to the check: ‘It helped to speak to Marc Madiot for some time’
An excellent 4 months later, Van den Berg is allowed to begin exercising once more. ‘Sitting nonetheless for 4 months was actually robust. I had an infected coronary heart muscle. It has to heal over time. If all goes nicely, every thing is gone now. Now get well step-by-step, if all goes nicely utterly. I do need to be monitored carefully.’ The rider in French service says he was particularly very anxious for the time being itself. ‘You truly faint and also you discover that and also you cycle in a big group. It is rather harmful.’
Van den Berg’s restoration goes so slowly and punctiliously that we cannot see him again within the peloton till 2025 on the earliest. ‘I feel it would take not less than six months earlier than I can prepare totally. So I hope to be again subsequent season. It is also troublesome for the group. They need to know every thing. However it might’t go sooner than quick, I’ve to be affected person and above all simply take my time and wait. Right here within the Tour I additionally communicate to Marc Madiot. That helps. I discover that I miss all of it enormously. Sitting on the desk with these males and telling one another tales’, says the younger Dutchman about his lengthy restoration.
