Giving up is a word that is not in the vocabulary of the Portuguese cyclist Ruben Guerreiro, who despite having the left side of his body “without skin”, after having fallen again in the second stage, will continue in the Tour de France.
“I fell in the first kilometers of the bridge [do Grande Belt]. When I was trying to get out of all that trouble on the left side, the TotalEnergies cyclist braked in front of me and I couldn’t avoid touching his rear wheel and I ended up falling”, described the Portuguese from EF Education-EasyPost to the Lusa agency.
Ruben Guerrero got involved saturday in the fall who took the yellow jersey Yves Lampaert (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) —in the meantime ‘dethroned’ by fellow Belgian Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)-, 18 kilometers from the finish line, at the start of the crossing of the Great Bridge Belt .
Initially credited with the same time as the stage winner, Dutchman Fabio Jakobsen (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl), the cyclist from Pegões ended up ‘relegated’ to last place in the general classification, after the Tour’s stewards college of France accounted for 11.04 minutes that the Portuguese lost at the finish line, since his fall occurred outside the last three kilometers of the 202.2 link between the Danish cities of Roskilde and Nyborg.
“I didn’t break anything, but the left side of my body is skinless, I didn’t have a very good night and now I’m going to continue this Tour one day at a time. Giving up is a word that is not in my vocabulary”, he assured Lusa.
For Guerreiro, who had already fallen in the time trial of the first stage, being the red lantern for the ‘Grande Boucle’, 12.43 minutes behind Van Aert, it is sign that he is still in the race “and this is more important”.
The 109th Tour de France continues today with the final stage in Denmark, a 182-kilometre connection between Vejle and Sonderborg.
Source: Observadora
