“From now on I will run with two extra small wheels, like children.” Eddy Merckx he already wants to joke following the operation on his fractured hip following a bicycle fall that occurred last Monday. Through the Belgian media, the cycling legend reassures the many fans who were worried about his condition. “The doctor told me that the operation went well – explains the ‘Cannibal’, 79 years old -. They put a new hip on me. The pain isn’t too strong at the moment. On Monday it was enormous, but with the operation it goes Better”.
Merckx: “I was scared”
“I won’t deny that I was scared”, he says, describing the dynamics of the fall: “On the railway tracks in Hombeek, the rear wheel of the bike suddenly slipped. I fell on my side and was unable to get up. Luckily there were passers-by. Otherwise it would have been a disaster. Today the cycling legend is already starting rehabilitation “with the possibility of immediately putting all his body weight on the operated leg. The operation went well and a full recovery is expected”, announced the Herentals hospital in a press release , where Mercxk had a total prosthesis implanted yesterday. Complete recovery will take several months but within a few weeks he will already be able to get back on the bike.
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