The yellow jersey and flesh of Lukas Postlberger were clearly torn by his heavy crash on today's Rás, but fears he had broken his collar bone have been scotched (Photo: Paul Mohan - Sportsfile)
By Brian Canty
Rás yellow jersey Lukas Postlberger took a while to be checked over by the medical team at the An Post Rás today but when he emerged from the ambulance he did so smiling.
The 23 year-old Austrian admitted he took a hard bang early on today's penultimate stage from Ballinamore to Drogheda.
When he went down and though he required a bike change and some attention from the race doctor he was not badly hurt and is confident of holding the jersey tomorrow.
And while word went around the race he had fractured his collar bone, he was having none of it.
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“I’m in good condition, the shape is great, I have a little pain but it’s okay,” he told reporters afterwards.
“The doctor checked me and nothing is broken. Everything is fine, one more day to go, I’m focused so nobody could take the yellow jersey from me.”
Of the crash he recalled little, only that it happened quickly.
“Yes, in the first part after the crash you’re feeling a little dizzy and not knowing what’s happened.
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“I think it was fast, over 60ks per hour, I couldn’t imagine it happened so fast.
“I passed a group on the right side and there was a guy chasing me from the right.
“There was a car in front but the rider hit my front wheel and I had no chance to do anything.
“I went down, it happened, that’s cycling. We had to change the bike,” he continued.
“It’s totally broken, it’s not mine but we’ll fix it up and it fits very well.
“The team is really strong, we showed it today and we will be covered tomorrow.
“We will do the same as we have done all week.”
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