AFP photo from Velonews
Although I've never been a Contador fan I do not mean to discount the terrible nature of his crash, the severity of his injuries and his long road to recovery. Going from the peak of racing form and conditioning to a hospital bed sucks.
Contador dropped out of the Tour, has a broken leg and needs surgery but his broken bike frame seems to be getting way more attention. Which kind of makes sense to me because I'm giving the busted bike way more of my attention.
Bike racing has been around as long as bikes have been around. People that make bikes want people to buy their bikes and one of the best ways to get consumers to see those bikes is to put the bikes under really fast riders in really big races.
The theories and speculation on how and why Contador's bike frame broke are amusing to me and the evolving "official" stories from Specialized are even more amusing.
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