Having Skin In The Game

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No gain without the pain as Roglic will be sore and uncomfortable for the next week. I really hope he can avoid any more crashes as that would be exceptionally cruel.

Primoz Roglic pictured above after another hectic day on the Tour De France. On the first day we saw two huge accidents and then today there were some eye watering moments. Unfortunately on a bicycle if you fall off the clothing offers no protection. Peter Sagan and Caleb Ewan came off whilst doing over 80 kmph and had me looking the other way as road rash or grass burns are the worst type of injury in my mind.

I still have nightmares (not really) about one rugby season where I was injured in our first game of the season. It wasn't regarded as an injury though as how do you tell your team mates you have a bad roasty and are sitting out a few games. If you break a leg or tear a muscle that is a good enough reason, but not a grass burn.

In those days we were getting paid which helped with the bills but it didn't take the pain away. I tried everything from gauze and bandage to pouring 100% proof alcohol over it. The problem was where it was being on my hip it was a good centimeter deep and was the size of a golf ball. Every time you played the burn would just open up again and this lasted nearly 6 months. I would have rather broken a bone than go through that again as at least bones heal quicker.

The same with these guys on the Tour De France as we are only on day 4 with another 17 days of cycling to go. Roglic even though he is missing half his skin on one side of his body will be out racing again tomorrow and the next day until the end. The teams have their own doctors thankfully and are specialists in dealing with these types of road rashes.

Medicine and technology have improved since my playing days with things like a protective layer of plastic skin. These guys will need to bend and still be flexible so drying out the grazes is not an option as they will keep it moist healing it that way. Basically the opposite of what I was doing and why I am no doctor.

These cyclists area tough breed of sportsmen and put many other sports to shame with the injuries these guys sustain. Could you imagine a footballer being told he has to play again the next day with injuries like this? They play a contact sport, but it isn't really and are the biggest pussies under the sun. I admire what these cyclists have to go through and are proper athletes even though they don't look like much except skin and bones.



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Didn't Roglic go back straight up on the bike after he fell? I hear it on the radio todya.

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He did and rode in with his cycling gear in tatters yet again.

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I think half the peleton is riding with patches on these days, after the mass crashes they had. There’s nothing like a cyclist compared to other sports, they’re the toughest of the bunch! No pun intended for rugby players though 😉

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They are a different breed entirely and have to be half crazy to do what they do. What I find amazing is most of them make it to the Champs Elysees and you would have no clue how much pain the 21 days has put them through.

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Yep, and some of them have already done the Giro this year, which is 21 days of the same, but then in Italy 😎

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Good grief...that cannot be comfortable for him.

Could you imagine a footballer being told he has to play again the next day with injuries like this? They play a contact sport, but it isn't really and are the biggest pussies under the sun

I'll have to disagree with this though. The possibility of Getting injured shouldn't be a panacea for determining who's a proper athlete and who's not.

Floyd Mayweather for instance, with the principle of hit and not get hit ended up being far more successful (in all ramifications) than those fighters who took unnecessary risks and had love for slugfests.

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Absolutely agree on some athletes who were smarter than others and it is not about the injury that makes you tougher or not. Footballers though play act and they just irritate me no end with their antics and what makes it worse is they get away with it 99% of the time.

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The truth brother that cycling is a sport that deserves control, balance and resistance. and that sucker that Primoz Roglic took as he came in the group at high speed and not only him, there were several who fell but he took the worst part. However, the beauty was the courage he had to get up and continue his journey on stage 3 of the Tour de France. Courage that shows even more since you must continue pedaling with all those great wounds that must hurt a world without being in movement, imagine now riding the bicycle bending your body, pedaling and sweating in bulk. God grant heal quick and carry on as he is a favorite. My regards, brothe

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