[ad_1]
The great efforts of recent days, with three steep stages in the Alps, have caused many casualties during the 105th Tour de France
Vicenzo Nibali suffered a vertebral fracture when he fell (Photo: KEYSTONE / EPA / KIM LUDBROOK)
(nda)
Italian Vincenzo Nibali crashed in Alpe d Huez teamed with a police motorcycle and suffered a vertebral fracture. The winner of the 2014 Tour and fourth overall could still finish the stage and led to 7th place, but he had to explain late Thursday night for the 13th section of Friday's package. The tour is over for Nibali
Already before the start of stage 12 Thursday, Rigoberto Uran of Colombia had to give up after being injured in the left leg and left arm in the ninth section after Roubaix . and had lost a lot of time on the first two sections of the Alps.
Many other tasks followed on the way to Alpe d'Huez. Especially the fraction of the best sprinters continued to decline. After the departure of Marcel Kittel and Mark Cavendish (due to timeouts) the day before, Fernando Gaviria, Dylan Groenewegen and André Greipel also left the tour on Thursday
. With that, Peter Sagan slowly loses the competition. The Slovak world champion Road won two stages in the first week of the Tour, as Gaviria and Groenewegen. He now has a 210-point lead over second, Alexander Kristoff, in the points standings. If Sagan reaches the finish line in Paris, he will probably win the green jersey for the best sprinter for the sixth time in the last seven years, equaling the record of Erik Zabel.
Source link
