Pezcyclingnews: Eurotrash Katusha Thursday!

Katusha are having a great period of success at the moment; Alexander Kristoff is racking up the wins in Belgium and Joaquim Rodriguez took stage 3 in the Vuelta al Pas Vasco. Results, reports, rider quotes and video from Belgium and Spain, plus: That crash in Spain, preview Paris-Roubaix and on-board action from Flanders.TOP STORY: The Crazy Crash in Pas VascoAt the end of stage 1 of the Vuelta al Pas Vasco there were a row of metal poles about a meter high cemented or bolted into the road, 400 meters from the finish line. Instead of putting up barriers or some sort of warning, road cones were placed on the poles, which the first rider might see, but the riders further back wouldn’t… and didn’t. In the crash BMC’s Peter Stetina broke his right tibia and patella and four ribs, teammate Darwin Atapuma cut his left knee, Nicolas Edet (Cofidis) fractured his left clavicle and a rib and Adam Yates (Orica-GreenEDGE) fractured a bone in his right hand. But the worst affected rider was Sergio Pardilla (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) who suffered head trauma and was coughing up blood, he also has a fractured shoulder and a fractured left hand. His team doctor, Giuliano Peruzzi, said on Wednesday: “I’ve been with him this morning and he is improving gradually. He has had two very good very quiet nights. The drain installed in his chest no longer draws blood. At first it took about 600 ml of blood from his chest....

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