Bad Crash For Ben Swift

22 February 2019 10:49
Team Sky's Ben Swift is still in intensive care after suffering a crash in a training ride in Tenerife.Swift, hit a rock which caused him to crash, suffering multiple contusions, evidence of multiple areas of bruising show up on a scan and an injury to the spleen that caused bleeding, but this bleeding has now stopped. A procedure was performed on Wednesday afternoon to reduce the risks of this bleeding starting again.Team Sky Doctor Inigo Sarriegui, told TeamSky.com: “Swifty suffered quite a heavy crash whilst out training.“Thankfully though, he didn’t lose consciousness and was aware of the incident afterwards.“We will continue to monitor him over the coming days, but 24 hours on from the crash he is already feeling better." This morning, Ben Swift tweeted: "Thanks for the well wishes. I am still in intensive care at the moment. But hopefully move onto a normal ward tomorrow. They have stopped the bleed in the spleen. But just need to keep monitoring it. Along with that I have facial wounds and road rash.".read full article

Source: Kev Monks