Hincapie has broken collar bone from stage 17 crash at the Tour
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“Got some bad news this am. X ray confirmed my collar bone is broken.” Queen’s native George Hincapie’s post on his twitter feed.
Hincapie would not see a doctor after the crash so he could finish the Tour for his 13th time in 14 efforts, he didn’t finish his first try in 1996.
He played an important roll in leading out Mark Cavendish with 1 kilometer to go on the Champs-Élysées for his sixth stage win. He told Velonews.com “With seven laps (of the 6.5km circuit) to go, it was really hurting a lot,” he said. “But on the last lap, I was fired up and I didn’t notice it all that much.”
He now plans on letting it heal naturally and will be off the bike for about four weeks.
His contract with Team Columbia-HTC at the end of this year. He’s not saying what his future plans are and that he’s trying to figure that out. Sounds like a man who is waiting for the phone to ring and there’ three US teams that would like to have his talent and experience. Will he be riding for his old boss, Lance Armstrong on Team RadioShack?
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