“ From now on, I will drive with two small training wheels “, joked Eddy Merckx, Belgian cycling legend, to the media. The 79-year-old former sportsman underwent successful surgery on Tuesday December 10 for a hip fracture he suffered the day before, following a cycling accident on a railway line. The doctor told me the operation went well “, he declared to the daily Het Laatste Nieuws. “ They put a new hip in me. The pain is not too bad at the moment. Monday it was huge, but with the operation it’s better “. The five-time winner of the Tours of France and Italy will begin his rehabilitation this Wednesday. with the possibility of immediately placing the entire weight of the body on the operated leg », announced the Herentals hospital in a press release. The establishment explained that full recovery will take several months but that the man with 525 victories could already get back on the bike in a few weeks.
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