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Freak injury Jalabert falls from ladder while changing light bulb
PARIS (Reuters) -- French rider Laurent Jalabert was in a Geneva hospital on Tuesday after breaking three vertebrae in his lower back in an accident at his Swiss home, his spokesman Philippe Crepel said. The former world No. 1 fell while trying to change a light bulb late Monday and was taken to hospital in great pain, Crepel said. Jalabert, who was to have competed in this week's Tour of the Mediterranean which he won last year, could be sidelined for several weeks. Jalabert told Johnny Weltz, sporting director of his CSC-WorldOnline team, that he had initially feared the injury was extremely serious. "I wasn't able to move straight away -- I felt paralysed," Jalabert told Weltz. "Now I've had a scan and it has ruled out anything too serious.
"I'm suffering -- but it's nothing too bad."
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