Giant-Alpecin team manager Iwan Spekenbrink has suggested that John Degenkolb could still ride the cobbled Classics, despite the injuries he suffered in the Giant-Alpecin training crash on Saturday, saying that comments by Spanish doctor Pedro Cavadas should be taken with a pinch of salt, with Degenklb already thinking of his comeback despite his serious injuries.
Cavadas, who performed reconstructive surgery to save the tip of Degenkolb's left index finger, said the German, who also fractured the radius in his left arm and suffered a wound on his upper leg, would be out of action for three months.
Spekenbrink noted that it is impossible to put a date on a return to racing, but said that the German, who has returned home for further treatment, should be back racing in April and did not rule out an appearance at Paris-Roubaix, though he did concede that the Classics are now a write-off from a competitive point of view.
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“The scenario is that he will not be in the Classics, or at least not at his full strength,” Spekenbrink told Cyclingnews.
“We were a bit surprised by Spanish doctor from hospital making statements about what time it takes for a rider to come back. That’s one source but of course we rely on our own doctor who coordinates things. We cannot yet say when he will be back – it will take a bit of time to define. It depends on how his arm and hand recover, when the right time is to be on the bike to have no cast on his arm. There are some steps in his recovery that cannot be defined by saying ‘that takes so many days’. It’s an estimation in progress.”
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