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PAMPLONA, Spain, June 24, 2009 (AFP) – Spain’s Pedro Horillo said after leaving hospital here on Wednesday he is uncertain whether he will be able to return to professional cycling after recovering from injuries suffered in a dramatic fall in this year’s Giro d’Italia.

“It would be tough to give up professional cycling in this way but it was an accident which I will just have to accept,” the 34-year-old Rabobank team member said.

Horillo suffered multiple fractures when his bike careered over a precipice during the 8th stage of the Giro last month.

“I am glad to have survived to tell the tale, especially after I saw the pictures showing the ravine where I fell,” he told reporters.