Image caption, Pfeiffer Georgi fractured her neck and also broke her hand in the crash at the Tour de France Femmes Published
British road champion Pfeiffer Georgi says she has not watched her crash at the Tour de France Femmes, when she fell and fractured her neck.
The 23-year-old went over her handlebars coming out of a roundabout in a mass crash on the fifth stage of the race in August.
Georgi also fractured her hand in the incident and spent 10 weeks in a neck brace as she recovered. She rode her bike outside for the first time since the crash last week.
"I’ve not watched it back because I don’t want to see it," she told BBC Sport.
"I remember it felt quite unexpected, we all thought we were going straight and then I just saw people crashing in front of me.
"I didn’t even have time to break or bunny hop or anything. I just hit them and flipped over and landed on the top of my head."The crash resulted in the second serious injury Georgi has suffered during her career, after she fractured her vertebrae on the other side in November 2020 while racing at Classic Brugge-De Panne and had to learn how to walk again .The DSM-Firmenich PostNL rider said she felt similar pain when she was lying on the tarmac."I kind of knew that feeling and I straight away thought my hand was broken and that was what I was more certain of," she added."Then after like […]
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