Victim of a new fall, Sunday on the Challenge Mallorca for his second race since his recovery after nine months of absence due to another fall, Nacer Bouhanni does not hide the fact that if he does not suffer from any fracture, this new misadventure hit him morally.
Sometimes there are falls that hurt more psychologically than physically. The new fall suffered by Nacer Bouhanni on Sunday in Spain is of this caliber. If the French sprinter is doing rather well this time, since the first exams he took on Monday the day after his umpteenth gadin did not reveal any fracture, he does not hide, however, that this new misadventure did moral damage. On Sunday evening, the rider from the Arkéa-Samsic team away from the peloton for nine months after his terrible fall last April during the Tour of Turkey, and which itself followed an accident three months earlier when he had been knocked down by a car in training, said he was “at the end of his rope”.
Monday, after the examinations revealed that Bouhanni, nevertheless still suffering from headaches, did not suffer from any fracture (waiting for the hematoma to resolve) and that the concussion protocol had not been initiated, Emmanuel Hubert, his manager, confessed in The team that his sprinter, who had resumed competition the previous Thursday, already in Spain, felt “very dejected and very affected” by this new fall, from which he had escaped with a head trauma, a large hematoma on the level of the ribs on the right side as well as numerous dermabrasions.
Hubert: “Nacer inevitably asks questions”
“We will review the point with the doctors on Wednesday”, added Hubert, however more worried about the psychological health of Bouhanni, especially since the latter thought he was finally rid of the “guigne” after having ticked “all the boxes”. “Nacer inevitably asks himself questions and wonders how it is that it always falls on him (…) The damage is done, the physical and psychological trauma is there. The Vosgien should quickly resume training. However, it will be necessary to wait a while before he regains his morale. If he finds it one day. Because this new fall is perhaps too much for a Bouhanni who is in a bad mood again.
