Till he broke on stage 15 of the Tour de France to Grand Colombier, Egan Bernal appeared to hide the back injury that knocked him out of the Critérium du Dauphiné. After the day of rest, the young Colombian discovered himself in the gruppetto on a demanding phase 16 to Villard-de-Lans, losing another 10 minutes to race leader Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) and no longer able to conceal the effects of his bad back.
” Today I was suffering all day, with back pain and it was increasing,” Bernal stated according to AS.com. If I continue like this, it will be challenging to battle for the stage in the Col de la Loze, which is an extremely tough climb, with a lot of high gradients.”
Bernal quit any hopes of protecting his title in the Tour de France after losing contact with the maillot jaune group on the Grand Colombier on phase 15, after holding Roglič to acquire only time perks in the very first half of the race. He lost 7:20 in a couple of kilometres however confessed he d been suffering on the Col de le Biche which proceeded the final climb.
There had been speculation that Bernal would provide up a lot of time in order to get more flexibility to leave for the groups very first stage victory of this Tour de France. The Ineos Grenadiers had a likelihood to declare the win on stage 16, but 2019 Giro dItalia winner Richard Carapaz lost contact with ultimate phase winner Lennard Kämna (Bora-Hansgrohe).
” The goal was to win the phase with an Ineos rider. The team is fine and was focused on helping me, but now they have flexibility,” Bernal said.
Carapaz handled to offer Ineos its very first podium look of the race, having actually been awarded the most combative rider reward.
It has actually been an extremely bad year for Ineos, who have actually dominated the Tour de France because 2012, and the dire circumstances have forced primary Dave Brailsford to look down the road to the 2021 Tour de France and try to salvage what he can from this years occasion.
” Its a little bit of a test of pride, character and passion now, to come back from this for the remainder of the week. As far as we are concerned, this is the first day of trying to win the Tour de France next year,” Brailsford stated.
Deceuninck-QuickStep manager Patrick Lefevere compared Bernals kind with other riders like Julian Alaphilippe, who were forced to stay inside for weeks since of local COVID-19 control steps.
” Everyone is speaking about those long training rides of Bernal, but before that he also spent two months inside your home. The riders who had to stay inside your home are not in the fundamental condition as in other years,” he stated to Sporza.
” It is too simplified to say that Bernal is over-trained. Rather, it is an absence of foundation. When you build a home, you have to put it on an excellent foundation. Those men in fact constructed up their physical fitness on sand, since they have been not able to do anything for 2 months.”
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” Today I was suffering all day, with back pain and it was increasing,” Bernal stated according to AS.com. “In the last climb it switched to my knee. If I continue like this, it will be hard to battle for the stage in the Col de la Loze, which is a very tough climb, with a lot of steep gradients.”
Those males actually constructed up their fitness on sand, because they have been not able to do anything for two months.”
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