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Boonen to face surgery
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Published 27/09/2005 at 07:22 GMT+1
Newly-crowned world road race champion Tom Boonen will not race again this year because he needs stomach surgery, his team Quick Step said on Monday. The 24-year-old had an operation last October to correct a congenital disorder of his intestine.
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"Tom will have surgery in Herenthals Hospital in Belgium on his abdomen as a follow up to his surgery of last year. He will not race again this year," team spokesman Alessandro Tegner said.
"He should be okay within a few days, but we don't want to take any chances."
Boonen topped a remarkable season by winning the road race at the world championship in Madrid on Sunday.
He became the first rider to be world champion and win both the Paris-Roubaix and Tour of Flanders in the same season and is also the youngest to win the rainbow jersey since Spain's Oscar Freire in 1996.
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