Saturday, July 27, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Ellen van Dijk is likely one of the favorites at first of the ladies’s Olympic time trial on Saturday. That’s really fairly an achievement, as a result of the Dutch lady broke her ankle a couple of months in the past. However what now? Van Dijk not solely broke her ankle, she additionally suffered a number of critical accidents.
It’s her companion Benjamin de Bruijn, who’s a journalist himself, who offers extra particulars concerning the damage on social media. “Ellen had not solely damaged her ankle, but in addition her proper foot, her finger, she had a hernia in her thigh and deep cuts in her legs that needed to be stitched along with 24 stitches.”
That is information, as a result of a couple of months in the past the story of the damage gave the impression of this: “Investigations within the hospital confirmed that, along with different and lighter harm, she broke her ankle”, was the assertion from the KNWU in early June. That ‘different and lighter harm’ now seems to be fairly critical.
Ellen not solely broke her ankle, but in addition her proper foot, her finger, she had a hernia in her thigh and deep cuts in her legs that needed to be stitched along with 24 stitches.
Some highlights from her restoration: pic.twitter.com/qZHh3SwlNm
— Benjamin de Bruijn (@BenjaminBruijn) July 27, 2024
