Heppner takes a tumble

Team Wiesenhof Sport Director Jens Heppner had a near-miss over the weekend, when he fell down the basement stairs at his home in Belgium. He ended up with various broken bones in his face as well as the sixth cervical vertebra and a bone in his right hand. "The doctors told me that I was lucky to have survived," he told the BILD tabloid.

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