Cyclingnews caught up with Team Garmin-Transitions’ Steven Cozza, fresh off his collarbone break at the Tour of Qatar. Steven tells the story of the crash and what the early diagnosis is for his treatment.
Garmin-Transitions’ Steven Cozza became the second rider to broke his collarbone during stage two of the Tour of Qatar on Monday after Team Sky’s Kurt-Asle Arvesen’s fracture.
The likeable rider from California hit a pothole in the rough roads and lost control of his bike. Unfortunately he landed on his left shoulder and his collarbone gave way, fracturing in the same point it had during two previous career crashes.
It meant the end of Cozza’s race and he will now travel to Belgium to have a plate fitted on his fracture. It will mean more pain, but the hard man of US admitted he did not even take painkiller after his crash.
“It’s the third time I’ve broken my collarbone and in the same place. I’m getting kind of used to it but it’s not something I want to get used to,” he told Cyclingnews after dinner in the race hotel at the Tour of Qatar.
“I have to get it operated on now because a collarbone never really heals properly. After three breaks in the same place it’s about time I get it sorted out so that it doesn’t keep breaking.”
While Arvesen crashed in the neutralised section of the race, Cozza crashed after 50km when the side winds and high-speed attacks were splitting the peloton into echelons.
