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Racer John Hopkins underwent surgery today, when Dr. Arthur Ting screwed together a broken bone in his left hand. Desiree Crossman reports:

Well, everyone, John got through his operation. It lasted only about 45 minutes at Dr. Ting’s office. He placed in three screws and the bone looks like it wasn’t even broken from the X-rays. He said that it was a good idea that he did get it operated on due to some muscle tissue grown in between the broken area which was the metacarpal.

The healing will take about three full weeks but John can be back to his regularily scheduled program of training by the end of the week, but only light. Before the Czech race, he will have to use the muscles more to get full movement to ride the bike.

Other then that, it went well, we see him tomorrow for a post-surgery observation and that’s it. Good as new.