Last June, the life of Michael Matthews (Team Jayco alula) could have changed! Present in altitude internship in order to best prepare the Tour de France 2025, his team detected the first signs of a potentially fatal pulmonary embolism in the 34 -year -old runner. Consequently, the career of the one we call “bling” has been put in parentheses in order to treat this disease. The native of Canberra then returned last Sunday during the Brittany Classic-Ouest Francewhere he took a magnificent 8th place in the sprint. A more than conclusive return for the training runner Jayco simplewhich spoke in the columns of Rouleur.cc before Quebec Classics and Montréal which will compete respectively on September 12 and 14.
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“I couldn't really breathe …”
In a moving testimony, the title holder of the Quebec Grand Prix said: “The doctors told me that if I had continued to train at altitude for two or three additional days, I would probably not have survived”begins the Australian. “One day, I was doing my training at altitude as usual, and the next day, I found myself in the hospital”he reports. “I was perhaps a week and a half of my three-week internship and I could not really breathe. I had acute and nagging pain in the chest, but I continued to train while thinking it was an allergy, because they cut the grass and I actually suffer from severe allergies”he explains.
“The pain continued to worsen, but I continued to train despite everything”says “bling”. “I arrived at the end of my internship and I made a lot of efforts, but I couldn't even make a single one. I had dizziness and I fell from my bike in a climb. We stopped training and we went to the hospital in Switzerland, where they took me exams and discovered blood clots in my body. in the hospital and three months under anticoagulants “concludes Michael Matthews.
