2019 Giro d’Italia winner 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Richard Carapaz has defended himself against accusations by a Movistar sports director that he was "disloyal🌺", saying that he suffered🍎 from a lack of trust in his former team.

After winning the Giro, Carapaz left Movistar at the end of last year in tumultuous circumstances after fail�♈�ing to take part, as expected, in the Vuelta a España. He'd suffered an injury caused by a crash in a criterium in the week before - which he  l♛acked Movistar’s permis𒉰sion to take part in. 

By that point in the season, Carapaz had already made a deal with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Team Ineos for 2020, reportedly for a much bigger salary than he had been making in Movis𓆏tar.

Apart from Carapaz’s complicated departure from the Spanish team, his agent, Giuseppe Acquadro and Movistar team manager Eusebio Unzué have also had a tumultuous relationship. Acquadro is the agent for Carapaz, Nairo Quintana, Winner Anacona and Andrey Amador, all of whom left Movistar at the end of 2019. Unzué reportedly said last year that he would no longer employ any riders th𒁏at Acquadro represented.

Speaking in the Netflix documentary 'El dia menos pensado' [The least expected day], which covers the whole of Movistar's 2019 season, director Pablo Lastras said: "I don’t care about his [Carapaz’s] future. He’s not been loyal and I don’t want a ꦕrider who’s not been loyal in my team.

"They𒐪 might have given him more money [in Ineos] than we could, but he jumped the gun, because there was money this year [2020] in the team."

Fourth at the 2018 Giro d’Italia, Carapaz’s victory there last year was one of the most unexpected Grand Tour wins of recent years, with the Ecuadorean starting the race as a &lsq✅uo;Plan B’ for Movis♉tar, led by Mikel Landa.

However, as Landa struggled with eaಞrly poor form, crashes, and injuries, Carapaz flew under the radar on GC until the third week, when he moved ahead of leading favourites Vincenzo Nibali (then with Bahrain-Merida) and Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) to claim his country’s first-ever Grand Tour win. 

Carapaz has defended himself from Lastras’ charges on ESPN Bike, sඣaying: "The kind of trust that I needed [from the team] was never really provided.

"I’ve not been disloyal. I gave the te🌳am more than they asked for. As a rid🦄er I gave it everything and, if they don’t value that, then people can draw their own conclusions."

This article has been corrected so that it states that Carapaz was fourth at the 2018 Giro d'Italia, and not the 2019 edition, which he won.