Ouch!

The Team CSC website is reporting that Danish rider Nicki Sørensen took a nasty tumble while training with his teamates near Malibu, California on Sunday.  He was rushed to hospital in Thousand Oaks and, according to the team, he “suffered deep cuts and bruises to his forehead and face and later underwent surgery in hospital.”It does sound though as if he’s going to be okay and the team says they think he’ll be able to return home later this week.

Sørensen is one of those hard-working, loyal-to-the-death kind of domestiques that every team leader dreams of having with him in the peloton.  Despite riding pro since 1999 he has only taken one big win in his career – stage 18 of the Vuelta in 2005.  However, he has made his mark on the sport in other ways.   

On stage 16 of the 2003 Tour, Sørensen was hard at work for team leader Tyler Hamilton.  Sørensen got into a breakaway early on in the stage and ended up sacrificing his own chances for a stage win in order to pull Hamilton and thereby allow his leader to conserve strength.  He’s ridden the Tour every year for the past seven years for CSC and there’s a reason why Bjarne Riis brings him along every year.

Here’s hoping Nicki feels better soon!

Meanwhile, my boy Matthieu Sprick is still in yellow over in Malaysia at the Tour of Langkawi but he’s holding on with his fingernails now to a one second lead over Mitchell Docker (Drapac-Porsche) who put two seconds into Sprick today.  It’s not looking good for Matt, but my guess is that this experience of four days in yellow has put a fire in his belly and I bet we see some exciting things from him in the future.

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Tags: CSC cycling, Mitchell Docker, Sorenson, Tour of Langkawi, Tyler Hamilton

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