cyclist Alexander Valverdand He is already recovering at home from injuries sustained during jogging last Saturday while cycling with other runners in Murcia in the hamlet of Javalí Viejo. The athlete will be ready to compete in the Vuelta a España, which will start on August 19 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The perpetrator, who fled first and then surrendered to the authorities, could face a prison sentence of up to four years in custody.

The 42-year-old Las Lumbreras player, who is in his last season as a professional, was discharged on Saturday night after being observed at the Virgen de la Arrixaca hospital in El Palmar. Transferred there with another colleague, Peter MoyaHe was also run over by a 69-year-old driver who fled and turned himself in to the Murcia Local Police hours later. According to Valverde’s representative, Antonio Sánchez, a motorcyclist driving on the RM 560 road where the accident occurred noted the plate. The delivery was made at the police station of the La Alberca de Las Torres district, and the detainee could be sentenced to up to four years in prison.

According to preliminary information, the attacker complained that he stopped his vehicle on its tracks, following the insults directed at him by the cyclist group, and passed by at high speed without complying with the prescribed one and a half meters. According to eyewitnesses, the driver then backed off and then accelerated to crash into the athletes.

Valverde, who was dizzy on the ground and his bike was destroyed at the time of the accident, is not competing with his team Movistar at the Tour de France and evaluated Saturday morning to prepare for his return to Spain.

While the event is going on”a fear“, as Valverde noted on his social networks, ‘bullet‘ He’ll be ready to return to training in a few days, having set his mind on his latest participation. Valverde, who was first treated on the asphalt by the medical personnel involved in the attack, only suffers from bruises, as doctors confirmed after performing a scanner and an MRI.