Heroic for three weeks on the Tour de France, Kévin Vauquelin obviously had more difficulty digesting the family festivities that followed … The 7th in the general classification of the 112nd edition was indeed injured in the ankle as a result of a “Domestic accident” occurred after the end of the event on Sunday evening. The 24 -year -old French runner suffers from a “fracture at the distal end of the fibula“said his team Arkéa-B&B Hotels. It is a bone area located on the outside side of the ankle.
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Several weeks of stopping?
No additional clarification was provided as to the exact circumstances of this accident, before the main interested party completes on his social networks: “For more precision, it is by deceiving stairs with my suitcase and not in the evening. Sorry to those who thought I was an alcoholic”, with his usual your quirky.
This type of injury generally implies immobilization by folded boot for about six weeks. It remains to be determined how long will be necessary before the Norman can find the roads and resume training, then the competition. One thing is certain: Kévin Vauquelin will not be able to participate this Tuesday evening in the 42nd edition of the Lisieux Critérium.
