UAE Team Emirates said Wednesday that Simone Petilli underwent successful surgery to repair the fractured collarbone he suffered in a crash at Il Lombardia. Petilli was left with fractures to his neck and D1 vertebra, a broken shoulder blade and collarbone, concussion, and a litany of scratches and bruising after crashing on the same corner as Laurens De Plus (Quick-Step Floors), Jan Bakelants (AG2R La Mondiale) and Daniel Martinez (Wilier Triestina). `At the medical institute Nuova Poliambulanza in Brescia, Dr. Flavio Terragnoli successfully performed an osteosynthesis surgery on the multiple fragments fracture of the right collarbone,` UAE Team Emirates wrote in an email to Cyclingnews. `The team´s medical staff will evaluate the recovery time.`ADVERTISEMENT Of the three other riders, Martinez escaped with very few injuries and competed in the Tour of Turkey. De Plus was initially cleared of serious injury, but he was eventually diagnosed with a fractured kneecap when he went to hospital at home in Belgium. He is expected to be off the bike for a month as he recovers. Bakelants remains in hospital after the crash. He was transferred from Como to a hospital in Leuven on last week and underwent surgery on Friday to stabilise the fractured vertebrae he suffered. Kelderman seeking GC result in Guangxi Team Sunweb will head into the final WorldTour race of the year with Wilco Kelderman seeking a GC result this week at the Tour of Guangxi, while Michael Matthews and Max Walscheid will hunt stage wins in the sprint finishes. Kelderman, Matthews and Walscheid will be joined in the six-day race that starts Thursday by Lennard Hofstede, Mike Teunissen, Albert Timmer and Max Walscheid. Rally Cycling signs brother and sister duo Gibbons leads Dimension Data charge in Guangxi
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