Injured Reserves Report: Za Dave heading home
For me there’s a particular point in our medical team’s management of a serious injury situation when I feel the most relief. That’s when the involved rider gets on a plane and heads home. Early this morning our Team Physiologist Allen Lim took Dave Z to a small nearby airport and got him headed to LA to join his pregnant, soon-to-deliver wife Randi.
Allen, Team Chiropractor Kevin Reichlin, and I collaborated to make that moment possible, and I’m both relieved and proud of how we managed the situation. Dave had a serious injury and was never for a moment out of the capable hands of one of us or, later on, those of our amazing soigneurs. And now he’s headed home to the ones who care about him the most. Yeah and wheeew!
The rest of the crew are a bit banged up and bruised, but hanging in there with good morale. Julian (left post crash) and Pat in particular have miscellaneous routine crash-related injuries, but are doing fine. A couple of others have minor wear-and-tear issues we’re looking after. However after yesterday’s sketchy racing and record-setting transfer (well-chronicled below by David M and Pat), we can probably survive anything the Giro decides to throw at us.
So much of succeeding over here has to do with temperament… specifically the ability to just take situations as they come and to simply accept them for what they are. It’s a character trait that I think everyone in our Giro entourage has and it makes all the difference.
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Will this compression fracture have the effect of making Dave a slightly shorter and more compact rider?
DZ get better soon so you can hold up that new addition of yours. hope to see you back on the bike this season.
It is so comforting to know that the guys have all of you looking after them the way that you do.
Any idea why Ryder wearing the red speedsuit, while the others, excluding David, were in their usual kits??
Michael, Ryder is the Canadian time trial champion, hence the red skinsuit.
Andrew, I was aware of that (love the Maple leaf on the helmet!!), but I find it surprising that they would let him kit up different than the rest of the group. Go Ryder!!
national and world champions get to wear special kits when racing their champion disciplines… road race champions (see Magnus Backstedt, Julian Dean, and David Millar who wear national champion kits, and Paolo Bettini of Quickstep who wears the rainbow WC Kit) wear their national/world champion kits during regular stages or one day classics, and time trial champions (DZ, Millar, and Ryder who wear national champion skinsuits in time trials only, and Fabian Cancellara of CSC who wears the rainbow WC kit on time trials only). Teams are more than welcome to let their riders wear champion kits, as it shows the quality and depth of the team…
All my good wishes for a speedy recovery to Dave Zabriskie, a nice talented racer!
Is Dave going OK for the TdF, or is that a really foolish question, because I have never been able to read a definitive report on how he is: He looked hurt– I mean HURT!– after the crash. So, how is the boy?
Any update on DZ’s condition?