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Urán, eighth in the 2020 Tour de France, assured journalists that the decision not to run the Tour of Spain “is due to surgery” within his recovery process from the violent fall he suffered precisely in the Iberian round the previous year and which ended abruptly with his 2019 season.
“A year passed since the operation and I have to do some medical tests this week because in recent days the plate that I have on my clavicle was giving me a bit of annoyance; it is quite large and it is time to remove it,” said the Colombian .
The climber spent three weeks hospitalized in Barcelona, where he underwent an operation that lasted seven hours, as he suffered a perforation of a lung, a broken clavicle and shoulder blade.
“With the team we made the decision to end the season; we are going to see if this week or the next he underwent surgery,” said the 33-year-old athlete.
For ‘Rigo’, this season so atypical due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced to modify the cycling calendar, left “a good balance because I was able to finish well” in the middle of “a year that has been difficult for everyone” .
“Doing the Tour two months later, I had time to recover and be there again in competition,” said Urán, who added about his future with EF: “The idea is to continue a couple of years with the team.”
In the 2020 season, the rider was 58 in the Tour Colombia and 22 in the Critérium du Dauphiné, in addition to finishing among the ten in the Tour de France, being 24 in the World Championship in Imola, 80 in Flecha Walloon and being fifteenth in Liege- Bastogne-Liège.
Although Urán launched his book ‘Rigo’, written by his compatriot Andrés López López, during his participation in the gala round, he chose the Book Festival in Medellín as the setting to officially present it to the public.
“It’s my biography. Many things were known about Rigo, but not everything was known. I like to talk a lot, but at the same time I am reserved. Here I had to tell everything about my life, something I wanted to do,” he added.
He specified that the reader will find a “fascinating story”, full of intimate details, with a message of forgiveness and resilience that does not focus solely on cycling, despite reconstructing his accidents on the bicycle.
“He talks about many things that I have in my life and that I had never told,” said the Colombian, adding that it was a three-year job to tell a “somewhat sad” story, but that it does not seek to “generate pity.”
“When people are reading it, it will be as if Rigo is speaking to them,” he said.
For the runner-up of the Giro d’Italia in 2013 and 2014 and the Tour de France in 2017, with a deep story he wants to provoke a “reflection” in the public, when talking about the murder of his father when, a dramatic chapter that Urán faced as a 14 year old young man.
“The reflection is on forgiveness because he spoke of my father’s death; it was a difficult moment but I have never had a grudge with the armed groups that did this,” he said.
During his appearance at the literary event, he told anecdotes from the Olympic Games, spoke of its authenticity and acknowledged that the Tour was “different and sadness was felt” by the impact of the coronavirus.
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