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After winning on Wednesday and entering the top 5 overall, an accident prevented him from fighting to get on the podium.
Nairo Quintana, Movistar cyclist. AFP
Nairo Quintana will end the Tour de France with a bittersweet feeling. He won the stage reign Wednesday in the Pyrenees demonstrating that his legs still seem made of iron. However, an accident left him with several injuries on Thursday, which prevented him from following the favorites in the last mountain stage on Friday.
"It was a little bitter, N we still have some good," said the 28-year-old Colombian Movistar cyclist, this Saturday before the penultimate stage, the against-the – individual watch, October 31, 1945. km. "We have won one of the most beautiful stages of the Tour, with elegance, which leaves us calm and satisfied, we still have years to try and try, we will continue to fight," added Quintana, ninth overall , more than ten minutes. of the leader, the Welsh Geraint Thomas.
Wednesday's victory in S aint Lary Soulan, very mountainous despite his short course of 65 km, allowed him to go back to fifth place. But on Friday, injured by the fall of the previous day, he could not follow the favorites, with whom he lost contact from the last port, Aubisque, to enter more than seven minutes from the winner, the Slovenian Primoz Roglic, descending to the ninth position.
Quintana accepted this Saturday injuries produced Thursday at the eighteenth stage, between Trie sur Baise and Pau . "The truth is that the falls affect you a lot, Friday everything would have been a little different, at least to have arrived with them (with the rest of the favorites)," he said.
After three podiums (two seconds and a third) at his first three participations in the Tour, he has experienced two worst editions in the last two editions, becoming twelfth in 2017, perhaps making the effort to have run the Giro, and the ninth in 2018, in which a fall took its toll.
Still, Quintana is optimistic about the future in the Tour. "We have a good age, we come to matu we are learning more and more every day and we will always be ready at the top for this dream (winning the Tour), "he concluded.
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