the Spring season is over for cykelstjernen Fabio Aru.
The 28-year-old Italian has problems with an artery and must have surgery.
He’s not going to run the race in the next three-four months and therefore, among other things miss of home in the big stage races, the Giro d’italia.
– Thorough studies have shown that Fabio Aru has a narrowing of the iliac artery in the left leg, which prevents an adequate blood supply, when one tries to provide a maximum effort, writes Arus team, UAE the Emirates in a press release.
the Aru has had a hard time to hit the expected level in this season and have also felt weakness in the limbs after training and races.
It got the team to subject him to a thorough investigation, and it is that which, now, has demonstrated a narrowed artery.
– In the coming days to Aru undergo a ballooning and then stick completely in ro in a month.
– Which will probably go three to four months before he is back, says UAE Emirates hospital medical director Jeroen Swart.
the Aru itself has received the diagnosis with mixed emotions.
– On the one hand, I can only be glad that you’ve found the problem. On the other hand, I’m tired of that I once again affected by the accident, said Aru.
Earlier in his career he’s put together has become the number two and three in the Italian Grand Tour. In 2015, he won also the Vuelta a España.
