Teammate about horror overturning: – I was really scared – Dagbladet.no

(Procycling.no): With about 40 kilometers left of Monday’s stage in the Giro d’Italia overturned Domenico Pozzovivo ugly.

Italians front wheel slipped in a left down from Barbagelata, and 32-year-old Deis the ground face first.

For several minutes he lay lifeless on the ground, with teammate Hubert Dupont and despairing crowd around him.

– I was really scared, says Dupont according velonews.com .

– The eyes rolled and it seemed like it took very long time before it got medical personnel.

Television pictures got the whole cycling world to hold its breath, and memories for quick return to that fateful spring day in 2011 when Wouter Weylandt died in the region during the giro.

First seven minutes after Velten paramedics arrived. Then we had rides doctors already received Pozzovivo up on a stretcher.

The featherweight climber was then taken to the hospital in the destination city Sestri Levante.

The first reports that came was the joyful battle. Despite the fierce battle to the head, it was reported that Ag2r rider was constantly conscious.

– Pozzovivos situation is serious, but under control. There’s no emergency, said race doctor Tredici in RAI television broadcasting.

– The rider is conscious and breathing of the machine.

Later in the evening there came also reports that Pozzovivo had talked to his girlfriend in the hospital.

VeloNews reports that the initial diagnosis suggests head injuries, but no broken bones.

– The good news is that Domenico’s OK. The first reports we have received are very encouraging, said a spokesman for the team to the site.

This article is supplied by bike website www.procycling.no.