Richard Carapaz He will remain in Quito to carry out his recovery treatment. The objective will be to fully recover to reach the Back to Spainthe third major of the year in road cycling and which will begin on August 26, 2023.

Richard Carapaz arrived in Ecuador on July 2, 2023. A day before that he suffered a serious fall in stage 1 of the Tour de France.

The Ecuadorian Olympic champion has already been evaluated and will physiotherapy during the next few days.

“We will work with new equipment. We will do shock waves, focused physiotherapy and electrostimulation so that the muscles do not atrophy,” he said. José Reinharta doctor specialized in sports and who is part of the team of specialists that treats him in Quito.

“With the enormous recovery that the athletes have, with the work that we are going to do daily, we believe that in two weeks he will begin rolling on a roller, to keep him cardiovascularly in shape,” he indicated. Reinhart to THE TRADE.

“We have to see daily how he reacts. Whether riding bothers him or not. There are many things that must be taken into account and that are day to day, how he is evolving,” added the doctor who has worked together with Carapaz since 2020.

What does Carapaz have?

“An MRI study and a CT scan were performed. It was obviously confirmed that there was a bone injury, with microfractures in the trochlea bone,” said Reinhart.

Additionally, Richie has a strained lateral ligament in his knee.

“He is immobilized, he will remain immobilized for regarding two weeks. In regarding eight days we will begin recovery so that he can reach the Vuelta a España,” the specialist reiterated.

How is Richard Carapaz mentally?

“It’s pretty good really. That was also the question he asked me Jon Greenwell, your Education Fist doctor. Obviously it is still a shame for him, but he has accepted it quite calmly. These are things that experienced cyclists know can happen at any time, even at the last moment of the race,” Reinhart said.

“Normally the recovery would take regarding six or eight weeks, but with the enormous recovery that the athletes have, we hope that they will return to the Back to Spainif everything goes as we hope,” added the doctor.

José Reinhart y Richard Carapaz

José Reinhart He is one of the most experienced Sports doctors in Ecuador. He began working with Richard Carapaz since 2020 when the cyclist joined the Ineos Grenadiers.

“I started with him in the year of the pandemic. I had to return for check-ups in England and I received a call from the Ineos to take charge of the check-up and controls of him and Jhonatan Narváez, because there were difficulties in traveling. Then they put it in our hands,” Reinhart said.

“Now that he is in Education First we continue as the doctors directly responsible for him, although when he has the races he is in the hands of another doctor called Jon Greenwell“said José Reinhart, specialized in Germany.