Ezequiel Mosquera is playing with his daughter at home with a swollen face after he spent five days in hospital with a fractured skull suffered in a serious mountain bike accident. Mosquera admits that he was "scared to death.”
The accident happened on Thursday afternoon and he was hospitalized until Monday, for five days, at the Clinical Hospital of Santiago de Compostela. The crash happened was in an area near Santiago that he passes “dailyu” and knows “very well” he told La Voz de Galicia. The former professional Galician who was second in the 2010 Vuelta a Espana, suffered a blow to the head and started to bleed heavily.
Fortunately, he did not lose consciousness. "Maybe it could be worse but I still had bad luck. I had to walk at least two kilometers to find the first people and the first houses.
"I stumbled over something, I crashed and hit my head – I do not even know the number of stitches. There was much blood. When I was lying in the ambulance, I did not realize the severity. I did when I was brought to the intensive care unit,” he told the Galician newspaper.
The injuries were not serious and "not of great importance." Mosquera is already thinking about the resumption of his training. However, he first needs to get his bike back as it was parked in a house in the place where he suffered the crash.
Mosquera (1975) was a professional between 1999 and 2011 and reached the best results in the Vuelta. He won the Bola del Mundo stage in 2010 and finished second to Nibali and was fourth in 2008 and fifth in 2007 and 2009. Today he is still linked to cycling through the sportswear company Northboar and other sporting events.
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