Perez suffers career-ending car accident

Pedro Pablo Perez, five-time winner of the Vuelta a Cuba, was injured severely in a car crash two weeks ago. His goal was to retire after the Olympic Games in Beijing. Perez suffered severe injuries and was in a coma for more than a week.

Details of the crash are unclear. Perez is said to have driven the car near Pinar del Rio, the most-western Cuban province, where he's from.

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