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In August of last year, doctors told 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luke Rowe he might never ride a bike again after they worked to repair his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:shattered lower right leg. Now, just seven months later, he has been selected to support Team Sky's defending champion inඣ Milan-San Remo, Michal Kwiatkowski.

Rowe was on a rafting trip as part of his brother Matt's pre-wedding celebrations when he jumped into shallow water and suffered some 20 fractures to his right tibia and fibula. Doctors inserted a metal rod to stabilize the breaks, and after months of physical therapy, he rode a bike for the first time on the velodrome in Newport last November, but 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:thought he would miss all of the 2018 Spring Classics.

Although he was warned that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:one more serious crash affecting that leg might end his career, Rowe has decided not to 'wrap himself in cotton wooꦗl.'

"If I was to crash and if it was a big one, well, you can imagine&hell💜ip; the rod bends, the bone doesn't. So it would shatter a♛nd I would never ride a bike again. Potentially never walk again. I would never have full use of my leg," Rowe said last November.

By December, he was back 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:riding with his teammates at the Team Sky camp, still taking things day-by-day. But by February, he was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:racing in the Abu Dhabi Tour, and on W♎ednesday was in the thick of the action in the cl♉osing kilometres of Nokere Koerse.

Rowe will be joined by Gianni Moscon, Salvatore Puccio, Ian📖 Stannard, Dylan van Baarle and Lukas Wisniowski in supporting Kwiatkowski at Milan-San Remo.

Kwiatkowski, who just won Tir𒈔reno-Adriatico, is among the top favourites to win Saturday's ✤Monument.

"I am always motivated to ride well in Milan-San Remo, and I know how lucky you need to be in the end to be victorious," tꦬhe former world champion said in the team's ann🅰ouncement.

"With a Milan-San Remo win under my belt, the pressure will be less as I don't have to prove anything. I just need to feel good, ride a good race and we know with San Rem📖o th🅘at you also need to be lucky too.

"I have worked hard to be in good condition for Strade Bianche, Tirreno and ⛦let's hope at Mil💃an-San Remo too."

Team Sky for Milan-San Remo: Michal Kwiatkowski, Gianni Moscon, Salvatore Puccio, Luke Rowe, Ian Stannard, Dylan van Baarle and Lukas Wisniowsk♌i.

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