Loic Bruni Out of Lošinj World Cup?

Apr 20, 2018
by Alex Evans  
Spotted on Ben Cathro's Instagram, Loic Bruni could be out of the running in Croatia with a suspected dislocated elbow. Fingers crossed that it's nothing serious and Loic makes a full and speedy recovery!

bigquotesBruni’s bike just brought down hill. Suspected dislocated elbow! Shit luck dude @loicbruni29 #Cathrovision *EDIT* just wanted to add that this is 2nd hand info so not 100% guaranteed to be correct. Came from Specialised team lorry driver.*EDIT*Ben Cathro


We'll update this story as and when we get more information.



UPDATE: 16:10 BST
It looks like Loic is planning on trying to ride tomorrow, according to his Instagram.

One of our resident World Cup photographers, Ross Bell, who's on the ground in Lošinj is trying his hardest to find out more.
Loic Bruni


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73 Comments
  • 189 1
 Fake news to throw us off our Fantasy league strategy. Well played.
  • 91 0
 Sell, Mortimer, sell!
  • 43 0
 Or fake news to introduce Protour back into the PB comment section?
  • 20 1
 @vinay: man they really need to address this dangerous axle path though. Loic needs to push for some danger pay
  • 6 0
 Right? I literally added bruni to my team yesterday
  • 3 0
 Where is the price drop? Wanna BUY Superbruni!
  • 3 0
 My second Fantasy injured rider... I'm feeling nervous for the other four...don´t want to jinx them...
  • 4 0
 @macross87: this should be top comment
  • 2 0
 @Davichin: I've had 4 of mine go down over the past few weeks
  • 4 0
 @YoungGun13: You need to stop playing now before you take them all out!
  • 2 0
 @macross87: turn those machines back on!
  • 1 0
 Comment of the day to you sir tup , now where did I lay that 135 axle @vinay:
  • 1 0
 @Ride406orDie: I will change my strategy before next race and pick everyone I don't want and switch to who I want at the last minute
  • 2 0
 That's it, I give up. My renewed team involved Iles and Macdonald and now both have crashed
  • 79 0
 It rubs the Losinj on it's skin.
  • 4 0
 9 out of 10 health professionals would agree it's best not to have any direct skin contact with Losinj
  • 1 0
 Or it breaks the chain again.
  • 37 3
 First Claudio in hospital and now Loic potentially out?! People asked for chellending DH WC tracks and it certainly seems like we have one here. Hope he's OK, good luck boys and girls!
  • 38 2
 To be fair, there are injuries at every world cup stop.
  • 3 1
 @dfiler: Very true
  • 27 2
 To me there is a difference between challenging to ride and dangerous/painful to crash onto. I'm all for a challenging course. If fact, I'd rather see that than something open and easy rolling so that riders need to go at insane speeds to take the top spot. Same here. I'd rather see them pick themselves up after a crash than that they slam themselves into a solid wall. Sure the mental aspect to deal with those conditions are arguably also part of the sport, but personally I'd rather see them all in one piece and put on a display of amazing riding.
  • 6 6
 @vinay: True - Those rock walls lining the course - is doom if you get off line and catch a handlebar or right into it. It's not like a tree. Those are more spaced out. And the urban aspect - well, maybe leave urban, urban- those guys know the consequences of that. Keep DH dirt. (preferable non park), but it is what it is. Let's just hope there are no more injuries! Bruni out stinks!
  • 1 0
 I bet they are taking many chances trying to do mental gaps over the gnar... some others are playing it safe..
  • 6 1
 @vinay: Any challenging track is going to cause injury (its a extreme sport) track have been getting worse over the years (easy rolling and smooth) and don't know about you but it puts me off wanting to push the sport to its limits, don't see f1 Tracks going in a straight line because its safer, think the sport should be more challenging rather than just fast tracks
STEEP AND ROUGH RULES Smile
  • 3 2
 @neimbc: ive had more non mtb friends comment about the urban dh stuff than any other...they were def wow'd by it.
  • 14 0
 @jrocksdh: because its something they know. Cameras flatten things out, but everyone knows what a staircase looks like and how high a 2 storey building is, and how big a car is when you put it in the middle of a gap jump. If you dont know mtb trails, or have never seen a pro video of something you personally find difficult, you don't truly appreciate it.
  • 4 0
 @vinay: Agreed. To me there is a difference between a good challenging course and something that is difficult simply because its almost unridable. Like a track littered with sharp rocks is hard and very difficult, but is it good kind of difficult? Jumps/gaps that are hard to clear because there is barely enough speed on the course? That again would be 'challenging" but does it make for a good track?
  • 1 0
 @AyJayDoubleyou: I agree..like basketball-almost everybody has stood under a hoop and looked up.
  • 29 8
 Ironic, after he criticized the track so heavily for being too easy, based on the first helmet cam footage he saw in the offseason. Total bummer to have one of the fastest guys out there, and a near automatic podium guy, off the track and out for possibly the whole season if it really is a dislocated elbow, hope that 1) it's not as serious as reported 2) Loic heals up quickly
  • 4 2
 I dislocated my elbow last March and I was back on the bike in June so I don't think he'll be out the whole season.
  • 6 0
 @LaXcarp: I dislocated my elbow in 2014 and that tore all my ligaments there and broke my radius and I was out for 1.5 years. I hope Bruni is not in that worst case scenario and he can race to his full potential!
  • 1 0
 @jzPV: I guess severity plays a role, I just tore my ulnar and anterior capsulate. I avoided any broken bones which would have required surgery.
  • 1 0
 @LaXcarp: i did mine and was probably back on a bike within 6 weeks at easy pace, feeling at ok speed within months, but it took a year or two to feel right. Wouldn't like to be having to race a WC on it within that first few months!
  • 11 1
 Bruni: “I saw the gopro run, and I think it’s too easy and not as challenging for downhill.”

Losinj: “You were saying?”
  • 6 0
 Ben Cathro... the TMZ of mountain biking
  • 6 0
 check his IG stories... he´s not out yet
  • 2 0
 Loic is an animal. I hope he heals quickly but at the same time I hope he uses his best judgment as it would suck even more if he rode on a bad elbow and made it worse to the point he would be out the whole season. Best of luck Loic!
  • 1 0
 Poor Bruni. I hope that he heals quickly, he always seems committed with his lines and speed on track. A few years back there were always riders out injured and pushing the speed v technical envelope was tricky. I have to think that maybe tracks have become a little sanitized over the last few years and the riders have forgotten or some maybe never knew what it was like to ride with these lower speed, high risk sections that are flatter and gravity doesn't get you out of trouble.
  • 1 0
 What a bummer....hopefully it isn't more than a dislocation I thought I had a dislocated elbow after one of my crashes but only an xray showed much more Fingers crossed it is minor and he will be back
  • 1 0
 That sucks! Picked him to win this event. Hopefully it's nothing serious? I mean, a lorry driver isn't a Dr. 2 riders down already, Claudio and now Loic. Rough, rough track. Hopefully the rest of the runs stay clean.
  • 2 0
 Whatever it is: Get well soon, Loic! We don't want to miss any of the riders on the race!
  • 1 0
 He will still get enough momentum at the end of the season to take a few WC races and World champs, hopefully. Heal up quick, buddy !
  • 3 0
 GWS SuperBruni... world need you
  • 1 0
 f*ck!
I read this news with 20mins to go on locking down my fantasy team so quickly switched Brunei for Gwinn.
Now it's too late to get Brunei back
:/
  • 1 0
 You still have 15 hours, rosters lock before qualifying
  • 1 0
 @karl-burkat: yeah it hours not mind, I should learn to read. Fingers X'ed he's back on it
  • 1 0
 @nojzilla: is Brunei really that well known for its riding talent though
  • 1 0
 Damn auto correct
  • 2 0
 Thats's terrible news and I hope it's not true!
  • 2 0
 Dang gum, I had him for the win.. Ok.. Well, go Greg then.
  • 2 0
 @protour ... Demo axle path?
  • 1 0
 Lol, where is that armchair engineer when you need him? Missing his conspiracy theories.
  • 1 0
 bad luck man, I think with the speeds these guys do this track will take no prisoners !
  • 1 0
 SHIT 22 mins left to change my fantasy legue! Bruni was to be my Top scorer Heal fast shredder
  • 2 0
 22 hours
  • 1 0
 @jonaslp1: thank FK for that! Now reading he might be OK....
  • 2 0
 @Superbruni: The price should drop accordingly! I wanna BUY!
  • 1 0
 Those are the breaks. Sorry Loic, heal up and come back stronger. You're fun to watch!
  • 1 0
 People call this gnarly but love Val di Sole haha. VDS is ultimate savagery.
  • 2 0
 Noooo!
  • 1 0
 Shitty, hope it’s not to serious! Get better Loïc!
  • 1 0
 Ken Bathrobe with old switcheroo...FAKE news Big Grin
  • 1 0
 Hope it sounds worse than it actually is. Feel better Loic!!
  • 1 0
 WITCH HUNT
  • 1 0
 Huge bummer!
  • 2 3
 uiiiiiii
  • 2 3
 Selling Bruni! 3 2 1
  • 3 6
 I don't like this track.
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