Stefan Küng will go through surgical operation to regard the accidents to his hand and cheekbone that he sustained in a crash all through the person time trial on the UEC Highway Eu Championships ultimate Wednesday, September 20, within the Netherlands.
Swiss Biking showed in a contemporary scientific replace that Küng was once transferred by way of Rega, Swiss air rescue, to a clinic in Switzerland on Friday, September 22. Medical doctors showed his accidents to incorporate a concussion, a fracture of the zygomatic bone (cheekbone) and more than one hand fractures.
Küng will go through surgical operation on Monday, September 25, on the Cantonal Health center of St. Gallen on his hand and zygomatic bone. Consistent with the federation physician Patrik Noack, Küng should apply a restoration length of six to 8 weeks.
Küng suffered a heavy crash all through the elite males’s time trial, working into the obstacles as the street narrowed and touchdown closely within the remaining kilometres of the 29.8-kilometre route in Emmen.
There seemed to be no workforce or scientific automobile following riders, so Küng remounted and completed the race with the entrance of his helmet in items, his face and chest coated in blood. He was once then wiped clean up and checked beneath the UCI’s concussion protocol on the end.
“Having a look again, we will say that Stefan Küng will have to no longer have completed this race,” mentioned Patrick Muller, aggressive sports activities supervisor of Swiss Biking. Then again, he additionally mentioned it was once tough to use this concept in observe.
“The whole thing is going on in no time. After the autumn, an athlete has the reflex to get again at the motorcycle. It is virtually unimaginable to prevent them. As well as, we best see the athlete from in the back of, from the racing car. It’s, due to this fact, tough to evaluate the seriousness of the wounds.”
The UCI enacted a concussion protocol in 2021, and riders at the moment are intended to be assessed prior to proceeding to race if they have got damaged their helmet or have suffered a crash that can have brought about a concussion.
Muller showed that Swiss Biking will analyse what took place and the stairs that had been and weren’t adopted after Küng crashed all through the time trial, which allowed him to complete the race with critical accidents.
Küng mentioned he’s now doing k regardless of the instances of his accidents and long restoration time. “The supervision by way of the Swiss Biking medical doctors has been and stays very good, I’m in superb fingers. We let’s do a debriefing and take pleasure in the teachings discovered from this debriefing sooner or later.”
Mauro Schmid will change Küng at the Swiss workforce competing within the elite males’s street race on the UEC Highway Eu Championships on Sunday.