It has been quite a year for Milram's Alessandro Petacchi.Petacchi fractured his kneecap during the Giro d'Italia in May, forcing him to miss the Tour de France in July.
Now, he has had to withdraw from the Vuelta a Espana and will miss the rest of the season after punching his team bus at the end of stage 15, when he narrowly lost a sprint at the finish. Petacchi lashed out afterward and broke a bone in his hand.
"I know I've done something stupid but I did it because I was very angry after having a real chance of winning for the first time for months," he said. "There's no doubt I've made a mistake but I'm a human being, not a machine."
Wasn't it Petacchi that called Giro winner Ivan Basso "a machine" during that tour, angering his fellow Italian?
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