Faraj Benlahoucine, Media365, published on Tuesday December 24, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.
Nacer Bouhanni returned to the tragic fall he suffered at the Tour of Türkiye in 2022, hastening his sporting retirement.
Last year, Nacer Bouhanni retired at the age of 33, following a violent fall during the Tour of Türkiye where he almost became a quadriplegic. Guest of the show RMC Sport Clubthe former French champion returned to this tragic incident. “It was a place where it was nervous in the peloton, everyone was telling us that we had to move up because there was a big risk of bordering. I must have been in the first ten or fifteen at that moment- there and on the restart we must have been at 60km/h I think Unfortunately I hit a person who was crossing the road I hit his head first I saw. immediately that it was serious. I couldn't hold my head anymore, I held my head with my arms so I saw straight away that it was a pain I didn't know existed..”
Deploring the poor treatment received on site from the emergency services as well as his ordeal, Nacer Bouhanni's misfortunes have only just begun. “Afterwards I remained inactive for three months. I had a corset around my neck for three months and I couldn't do any sport so it was complicated in the middle of the cycling season in May to stay three months without anything I no longer had the same confidence on the bike when I started again, when you're a sprinter you have a risky job, you know that when you play sport at a high level. I could no longer take the risks that I could sometimes take in the past. Rubbing in the finale became very complicated for me.”
Bouhanni: “I was 32 years old, I couldn’t see myself stopping my career”
These dramatic consequences prompted the former Arkéa-Samsic rider to file a complaint against the organizers of the Tour of Türkiye and claim several million euros in compensation. “This is what quite simply caused the end of my career. At that time I was 32 years old, I couldn't see myself ending my career so young. I would have liked to continue for a few years.” Her former team is also seeking compensation, arguing that she was forced to pay a substantial salary to her runner without him being able to practice his profession. Far from the tumult of the professional races, the former French champion and multiple stage winner at the Giro and the Vuelta I run, I try to do much less dangerous sports, and why not later perhaps duathlon
