• Cycling The drama of Diego Rubio: eight months off and a useless arm for a 'disastrous operation'
  • Cycling The cyclist Diego Rubio, after being run over while training: "Do we still not tighten the laws?"

"The time has come to say goodbye. My career as a professional cyclist is over. It wasn't the way I would have liked... It has been a luxury to fulfill the dream of a child who played with the bike for his town and has been able to run some of the best races in the world. " This is an excerpt from the statement that Diego Rubio has published on his social networks to announce his obligatory farewell to cycling. A goodbye caused by medical malpractice.

The cyclist from Avila (32 years old) has not recovered from a "disastrous" surgery performed in Tallinn (Estonia) in May 2022 after a fall suffered in the Tour of Estonia in which he fractured the ulna and radius of his left arm. "They told me to be 15 days without moving my wrist and that in two months I would be recovered, but after returning to Spain I was examined by several doctors, who discovered that the plates were placed where they should not, that bone mass is missing and that the wrist has a deviation of 40º," denounced the runner in an interview with ELMUNDO last February.

Since then, Rubio has undergone a long rehabilitation process controlled by medical specialists, but has not been able to recover full mobility of the arm, which not only prevents him from cycling, but also from performing some of the daily activities. "It was a botched operation... I thought about denouncing the doctor and asking for damages, but the lawyers took away my idea because I was going to waste time and money," explained the broker born in Navaluenga in the aforementioned report of this newspaper.

After the operation, Burgos BH did not renew his contract and he was left without a team. Diego Rubio intends to remain attached to cycling. In recent months he took the title of level 3 sports director.

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