Retired rider Nacer Bouhanni and his ex-team Arkéa-B&B Hotels are suing the Tour of Turkey for a combined total of €6.9 million in damages after the French sprinter’s crash at the 2022 edition of the race.
Bouhanni fractured a vertebra in his neck after getting caught up in a multi-rider crash on stage 2 of the April race when a spectator walking on the road failed to get out of the way of the peloton.
He’d lost the entire rest of his 2022 season due to the injury and struggled for much of the following campaign before hanging up his wheels at the end of the season at the age of 33.
“After my serious accident last year that cost me a broken neck and a very long rehabilitation period, I became a shadow of myself. I fought body and soul to try and get back to my level in vain. Life decided differently,” Bouhanni wrote on Instagram as he announced his retirement last October.
Now, Bouhanni, who still undergoes weekly physiotherapy sessions on his neck, is seeking €2.7 million in…