{"id":161586,"date":"2017-10-13T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=161586"},"modified":"2017-10-13T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T10:00:16","slug":"spanish-pro-raced-huge-metal-rod-leg-throughout-2017-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/10\/13\/spanish-pro-raced-huge-metal-rod-leg-throughout-2017-season\/","title":{"rendered":"This Spanish Pro Raced with a Huge Metal Rod in His Leg Throughout the 2017 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jos\u00e9 Joaquin Rojas (32) broke his leg during stage 20 at the 2016 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a. The crash into a guard rail at the side of the road left him with open fractures to his calf bone. Amazingly, the Spaniard then raced with a metal rod still in his leg throughout the 2017 season.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Ma\u00f1ana pasaremos por quir\u00f3fano para extraer este clavo intramedular de la tibia y mandar los dolores a paseo \ud83d\ude09 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3dbkiaIwob\">pic.twitter.com\/3dbkiaIwob<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; jose joaquin rojas (@jjrojillas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jjrojillas\/status\/917395350025097216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>His results were impressive. He took the fifth place at the Amstel Gold Race, picked up top 10 finishes on stages of the Vuelta and the Volta a Catalunya and even managed to complete both the Giro and the Vuelta.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Operaci\u00f3n finalizada y todo perfecto !! Ahora con unos gramos menos fuera del cuerpo gracias <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrEsparzaRos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DrEsparzaRos<\/a> y  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JFAbellan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JFAbellan<\/a> mis salvadores <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kwbstoQ18r\">pic.twitter.com\/kwbstoQ18r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; jose joaquin rojas (@jjrojillas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jjrojillas\/status\/917810633952899072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Now, after more than a year of living with a rod inside his body, doctors finally removed it, leaving Rojas to pose with the piece of metal for a very impressive photograph. He even joked he was going to have a better watts-per-kilogram ratio, now that he lost the metal weight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/10\/ace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-161587\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/10\/ace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9 Joaquin Rojas (32) broke his leg during stage 20 at the 2016 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a. 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