{"id":501465,"date":"2026-03-29T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501465\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:22:17","slug":"michal-kwiatkowski-counts-his-luck-after-scary-milano-sanremo-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501465\/","title":{"rendered":"Michal Kwiatkowski counts his luck after scary Milano-Sanremo crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days after the race, Kwiatkowski posted an update for his followers from the Cote d&#8217;Azur, where he is recovering. The news could have been much worse. &#8220;Quite a lot of road rash, the elbow took a hit and needed a few stitches, but nothing too serious. CT scan came back clear and X-rays of the thigh and elbow look good,&#8221; he wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWL227FjQgp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The main concern is a significant hematoma. &#8220;The biggest issue right now is a massive hematoma on my thigh. It&#8217;s really swollen and I can&#8217;t bend the leg at the moment, so we&#8217;ll see how it develops over the next few days,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>As for his femur somehow coming through the impact intact, even Kwiatkowski himself cannot quite explain it. &#8220;Honestly, no idea how the femur survived that impact\u2026 maybe short legs and a bit of muscle helped this time. Right now it just feels like Thor smashed my thigh with his hammer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With his leg currently immobilized by the swelling, the INEOS Grenadiers medical team will monitor the hematoma. The coming days will determine how quickly he can return to racing.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Days after the race, Kwiatkowski posted an update for his followers from the Cote d&#8217;Azur, where he is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,52999,114518,109543,101,8782,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-501465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-ineos-grenadiers","tag-michal-kwiatkowski","tag-milano-sanremo","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}