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At the edge of discomfort on arrival at Saint-Lary-Soulan, Romain Bardet was not only unable to regain the time of the best of this Tour de France. But the leader AG2R-La Mondiale, victim of a failure in the final ascent, retrograde to 8th place. Even the podium is moving away … *
And the ordeal continues … " Strongly the Pyrenees ", launched Romain Bardet at the moment to finish with two first weeks of race so unsatisfactory for the leader AG2R-La Mondiale, shunned by the loss of several teammates and who had accumulated a delay already significant on the cadors of this Tour. There remained the hope of a crossing of the last mountain range in the program of this 2018 course, which would allow Bardet to finally put the right offensive. To turn the tide.
# TDF2018 Bardet "A terrible day is the law of sport"
A Roman Bardet at worst after the finish pic.twitter.com/lJ41dHxLKj– France sports tv (@francetvsport) July 25, 2018
Las. It will be nothing. And the attack planned by the men of Vincent Lavenu from the first ascent of this ultra-short stage (65km), "rich" of three climbs, made pschiiit from the first difficulty of the day, the pbad of Val Louron-Azet. Pierre Latour, exemplary white jersey, has tried with Silvan Dillier to shake the squad of the cadors. A flick for a sky imperturbable and strong especially of a balance of strength largely favorable.
The sacrifice of Latour
" I did not understand the necessity to roll so hard will judge Laurent Jalabert , the consultant of France Televisions, believing that this initiative had especially allowed " to preserve the teammates of Geraint Thomas ", settled like airplanes.And "Jaja" to add a layer: " The strategy was perhaps that one, but we can also evolve with the sensations of the moment. It's not just the legs that have failed … Romain lost several teammates and found himself isolated several times . "A tale during this Tour, where Bardet, not spared by the blows of fate , was probably too often isolated.
The problem is that the note to pay was very heavy for the Clermont on Wednesday, in these Hautes-Pyrénées, who had smiled so much in the past. And allowed to link these two podiums in 2016 (2nd) and 2017 (3rd). A series now called to stop, after this failure in the Col du Portet, which has put Bardet to the torture.
" It was a terrible day, I have a terrible failure in the last pbad, the legs simply did not answer ", explains the Habs, who just keeps his place in the top 10 (8th, + 5'13 ''). A Bardet on the edge of discomfort: " It is very unfortunate, but it is sport, it must be accepted My body could not give me more today (Wednesday), [19459005Ihavedonethemaximumitisaterriblefailureitisthelawofthesportitisnecessarytoacceptit. " Does not he regret having asked too many his team-mates too early, at the risk of compromising the jersey of Latour's best youngster (who lost time on Egan Bernal), which Tomas Voeckler did not miss. to praise, with reason, this " irreproachable state of mind, to put like this in danger his white jersey for his leader "?
" Honestly, I had good legs all the way and then I really ran out of sugar in the last climb explains the Auvergnat, physically marked. I had sore throats I was really not good, I had to go really fast, I was totally bridled, I could not accelerate, it's hard to accept, we get ready for months. It's clear (the podium is going away). " A painful reality on a Tour, where Bardet can no longer aim a priori a baroud honor Friday, when leaving the Pyrenees (*).
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(*) The 19th stage between LOurdes and Laruns (200km) will be the last mountain stage of this Tour, before a clm unfavorable individual in Bardet (Saint-Pee-sur-Nivelle-Espelette 31km).
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