andrew_s
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News on Rabobank team site:
http://www.rabosport.nl/tournieuws/(Tour) Freire met luchtbuks beschoten#nieuws
Google translation:
Oscar Freire (photo) Friday during the descent of the col du Platzerwasel with an airgun shelled and its upper edge. Rabo team doctor Dion van Bommel after arrival at the hotel a lead ball from the leg of the Spanish sprinter removed. The doctor expects that Freire Saturday just the start of the fourteenth trip appears and thinks that the wound will hamper him much. The Raboploeg Friday will still return to the shelling of the French gendarmerie, who is now the Tour Organization ASO was end.
During the descent at kilometer 165 riders heard the crash shortly after three light display. Freire immediately felt a stinging pain in his thigh. The NewZealander Julian Dean was hit in the thumb. The third bullet has no apparent goal taken. Freire was without any significant disruption of the normal leg movement. Dean, too.
Team Arts Dion van Bommel reported Friday that sprinter laconic response. "He was very cool under. But this is Oscar. That is not fast pressure." But the shelling was not without any danger sign Van Bommel. "In the femur can such a little ball damage, but if Oscar such a projectile in a given view, he is blind. I think this is outrageous and I've never experienced in my career."
The team responded with fierce indignation. Frans Maassen team Freire was when the doctor removed the ball. "A truly incredible event. I hope they can resolve the matter, because this is something that very soon the head must be pressed", Maassen replied. The Tour Organization ASO has arranged for the French investigation Friday the Raboploeg in the hotel visit. There will be an indictment. Luuc Eisenga, communication manager of the team, through contacts with the ASO understood that the Organization Tour the incident very high pick.
http://www.rabosport.nl/tournieuws/(Tour) Freire met luchtbuks beschoten#nieuws
Google translation:
Oscar Freire (photo) Friday during the descent of the col du Platzerwasel with an airgun shelled and its upper edge. Rabo team doctor Dion van Bommel after arrival at the hotel a lead ball from the leg of the Spanish sprinter removed. The doctor expects that Freire Saturday just the start of the fourteenth trip appears and thinks that the wound will hamper him much. The Raboploeg Friday will still return to the shelling of the French gendarmerie, who is now the Tour Organization ASO was end.
During the descent at kilometer 165 riders heard the crash shortly after three light display. Freire immediately felt a stinging pain in his thigh. The NewZealander Julian Dean was hit in the thumb. The third bullet has no apparent goal taken. Freire was without any significant disruption of the normal leg movement. Dean, too.
Team Arts Dion van Bommel reported Friday that sprinter laconic response. "He was very cool under. But this is Oscar. That is not fast pressure." But the shelling was not without any danger sign Van Bommel. "In the femur can such a little ball damage, but if Oscar such a projectile in a given view, he is blind. I think this is outrageous and I've never experienced in my career."
The team responded with fierce indignation. Frans Maassen team Freire was when the doctor removed the ball. "A truly incredible event. I hope they can resolve the matter, because this is something that very soon the head must be pressed", Maassen replied. The Tour Organization ASO has arranged for the French investigation Friday the Raboploeg in the hotel visit. There will be an indictment. Luuc Eisenga, communication manager of the team, through contacts with the ASO understood that the Organization Tour the incident very high pick.
