…it’s best to land ON the mattress.
Matti Breschel of Team Tinkoff-Saxo apparently got it wrong – running into a flying mattress at 70 km/h while returning to his hotel after the closing stage of the Tour of Oman.
Matti explains what happened:
“After the stage, we were riding back to our hotel and on a descent when I was going 70 kilometers an hour, a mattress flew into my front wheel and brought the bike to a standstill. I hit the asphalt pretty hard and lost a lot of skin on my legs and face and the wound on my knee had to be stitched up. It’s still too early to say but I trust it doesn’t influence my preparations for the classic campaign and I’ll stick to my regular training program. I’m not concerned at this moment.”
Matti’s next race will be Paris-Nice.
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