2023-09-13 14:34:14
Terrible fear for Team Cofidis. His Dutch runner Wesley Kreder suffered a heart attack at home two weeks ago. The 32-year-old cyclist actually suffered from myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle. After receiving first aid from his relatives, he was urgently transferred to Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven.
This Wednesday, the French team revealed the information by giving reassuring news about his state of health. Wesley Kreder has already been allowed to return home for seven days, although he remains closely monitored by a cardiologist. Team Cofidis indicates that they have jointly decided to “end his season” to allow him to rest, and why not return to the highest level, even if it is “still too early to discuss the follow-up given to his sporting career”, according to the team press release.
“I went to bed normally on August 28”
The Dutch runner is already over-motivated. “I feel good, it’s hard to think I had a heart attack a fortnight ago. (…) I still need time for my convalescence to go well. But the doctors did not say that I could no longer get back on a bike, and I hope to be able to do so within one to two weeks,” he explains in the same press release.
Wesley Kreder also returned to the circumstances of this cardiac accident: “I went to bed normally on August 28 and the next day, I woke up in the hospital. It was really strange to find myself there, wondering what had happened and why I had come to this. » An incident which inevitably recalls that of Nathan Van Hooydonck this week, who caused a spectacular car accident after a heart attack.
Having arrived at Cofidis for a year, Wesley Kreder is a classic rider (14 participations to his credit). Winner of the Tour de Vendée, he has no stage victories on the Grand Tours to his name, but at least one great victory over life: “I’m so happy to be alive! »
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