Doebel-Hickok goes from breakaway to broken collarbone at Itzulia Women

Krista Doebel-HIckok (EF Education-Tibco SVB)
Krista Doebel-HIckok (EF Education-Tibco SVB) (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

Krista Doebel-Hickok (EF Education-Tibco SVB) was on the attack on the second stage of Itzulia Women from Vitoria-Gasteiz to Amurrio, but the joy of being out the front came to an abrupt and painful end.

“To go [from hearing] my teammate saying ’Krista solo’ in the radio to me saying ‘Krista crash not okay’ in it, all within a matter of minutes, pretty well sums up the highs and lows of sport,” the 34-year-old tweeted from hospital in Spain.

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Simone Giuliani
Australia Editor

Simone is a degree-qualified journalist that has accumulated decades of wide-ranging experience while working across a variety of leading media organisations. She joined Cyclingnews as a Production Editor at the start of the 2021 season and has now moved into the role of Australia Editor. Previously she worked as a freelance writer, Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and as a correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg. Cycling was initially purely a leisure pursuit for Simone, who started out as a business journalist, but in 2015 her career focus also shifted to the sport.