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"I decided to start this morning against better judgment, but the body just did not want to go," said Groenewegen after the end of the race at the Lotto-Jumbo hotel in Alpe d'Huez. Amsterdammer, 25, collapsed during Sunday's paved race and left left knee bruises. The last days there was a lot of pain in the back.
Tuesday and Wednesday came Groenewegen just before the time limit, but Thursday after the second toll of the day he came alone to more than a quarter of an hour of runners, "
" We tried on Wednesday night to put some order in my body, but I have too much trouble with my back, because of my painful knee, I made up for a bit and that 's it. is in my back. The pain has only worsened. "
Groenewegen knows that there is a flat ride on Friday and that there is another chance for a mass impression." But I can not run that way either, and I do not do not drive the Tour to drive him away, but I must also have a view that I can win. "
Achievements
For the 2016 Dutch champion, his most The winner came out of the seventh and eighth stage last week, placing him behind Joop Zoetemelk and Jan Raas in 1976 and 1978 only the third Dutchman who won two stage victories in the Tour. 19659002] "I love myself after this Tour so particularly attached to the good feeling of these two victories," according to Groenewegen. "It does not happen every year that a Dutchman wins two stages, and of course I would have liked to win in Paris and ride on the Tour, but that's not really happening anymore. "
North Hollander came after his task in a car rightly neutral with André Greipel and Fernando Gaviria, two other top sprinters who had to leave Thursday.
"The atmosphere in the car was good." For Gaviria, both steps eliminate the pain and it's also true for me. " 19659012] By: NU.nl/Daan of Ridder
