New Zealander Julian Dean will have to skip Paris-Roubaix next Sunday due to an injury. The 34-year-old crashed in Gent-Wevelgem and wounded his quadriceps, which needed stitches.
Dean had a major fright at the time, but in the end the injury ended up looking worse than it actually was. "A couple of riders skidded out on the wet road as we went through a roundabout," he recalled. "I became part of the mess going down also. Although I thought I was fine, when I went to get up it looked like I had been struck by an axe through the quadricep just above the left knee! After almost passing out at the sight I immediately lay back down and waited for help. I could not look at it again."
