FINDING BALANCE
When he speaks to Procycling, Joey Rosskopf is nursing four broken ribs, an injury he sustained during stage 6 of the Tour of Britain. The doctors told him that had he broken two more, it would have meant wearing a brace. Instead, with his broken ribs, he finished the race, and is now waiting for them to heal. “Rest and time” are apparently the only solutions to his predicament. He did manage to race Paris-Bourges a week after the interview, however.
The American explains: “Some crashes you can see a wave going through the bunch. This one wasn’t really anything; I was probably the first person down. A weird slowing and pinching, and I didn’t react fast enough. I have been really lucky. You can choose to ride without taking risks or whatever, but it has been a couple of years since I came off, and then I had one at Poitou-Charentes and then one at Britain. It’s hard to say.”
It feels like a less than ideal way to finish his season, one which he had high hopes for in January.
WORLDTOUR PRESSURE
This year was Rosskopf’s first with Rally Cycling, after six years on the WorldTour with BMC and then its successor team CCC. While it was a year
