Shirin van Anrooij has been pressured to finish her cyclocross season early after affected by a damaged rib sustained in a coaching crash.
Baloise Trek Lions confirmed in a medical replace on Instagram that Van Anrooij injured herself throughout a coaching crash simply forward of the Christmas block of cyclocross racing in December.
“Sadly, Shirin van Anrooij gained’t be racing CX races anymore this season. A tough crash throughout CX coaching prompted her a number of ache in her ribs, which she tried to combat as a lot as attainable,” Baloise Trek Lions confirmed in a medical replace on Instagram.
“However with one closely bruised and one damaged rib, the danger of racing is simply too huge. Her restoration is our precedence at this level.”
Regardless of injuring her ribs throughout the second to final week in December, Van Anrooij continued to race at Precise Cross Mol-Zilvermeer, the place she completed second and on the UCI Cyclocross World Cup in Antwerp, the place she completed sixth.
Though she began the World Cup in Gavere, she was not in a position to end the race because of the ache of her accidents.
“My thoughts stated sure, however my physique screamed no. I used to be so excited for the Christmas interval and able to present good kind there, particularly in considered one of my favorite races. However a really heavy fall on my ribs throughout cross coaching made this unimaginable,” Van Anrooij stated after pulling out of the race in Gavere.
“Within the crosses of Mol and Antwerp, I used to be nonetheless in a position to combat the ache and journey good crosses, however at present, it was an excessive amount of.”
Van Anrooij had a robust season with a victory on the Trek Cup and two podiums on the Precise Cross sequence in Beringen and Mol, together with top-10 performances within the World Cup sequence.
She will be unable to compete on the UCI World Championships held in Tabor in February. “Our precedence presently is her restoration,” Baloise Trek Lions stated.
