Final yr Lars van den Berg rode round within the Tour de France. As a teen within the staff with Thibaut Pinot and David Gaudu, amongst others, he was amazed by France. The Utrechter from Groupama-FDJ is busy with one thing fully completely different this yr: rehabilitation. Firstly of this season he fell in a foul approach in a French race. On Monday night he was a visitor in The Night Stage. There he instructed how he was doing.
‘I am doing higher and higher, luckily’, started Marijn’s brother, who’s driving the Tour this yr. ‘The autumn was in February. I did not really feel effectively on the bike after which turned unconscious. Fortuitously, I had little harm by way of wounds or fractures. After that, I had quite a lot of exams within the hospital. Final week I fastidiously began on the Tacx. I am glad I used to be capable of watch Marijn the previous couple of days. It was good to see him, additionally right this moment on the remainder day.’
Van den Berg’s endurance put to the check: ‘It helped to speak to Marc Madiot for some time’
A very good 4 months later, Van den Berg is allowed to start out exercising once more. ‘Sitting nonetheless for 4 months was actually powerful. I had an infected coronary heart muscle. It has to heal over time. If all goes effectively, every part is gone now. Now recuperate step-by-step, if all goes effectively fully. I do need to be monitored carefully.’ The rider in French service says he was particularly very anxious in the intervening time 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 thoroughly that we cannot see him again within the peloton till 2025 on the earliest. ‘I feel it can take no less than six months earlier than I can practice totally. So I hope to be again subsequent season. It is also tough for the staff. They wish to know every part. However it might’t go quicker 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.
