Alberto Contador was one of the high profile victim🐻s of the crash at 5km to go on stage 1 (Image credit: Robin Wilmott)
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Looking to have taken a tumble, Contad🙈or had damage to the left shoulde, right𝐆 arm and back of his jersey, plus his left hip (Image credit: Robin Wilmott)
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Alberto Contador (Team Saxo-Tinkoff) is lookin⛎g for his third Tour de France (Image credit: Sirotti)
“I feel good and I was lucky enough to have slept well last night [in spite of the crash],” Contador told after stage two. “My teammates were phenomenal all day long and we got through another difficult day. As my body warmed up and we got into the race, my woundꦿs didn’t bother me so much, although it was a bit uncomfortable sometimes, especially in the neck and back.”
Contador was one of a number of fallers in the chaotic finale of Saturday’s opening stage but was awarded the same time as the main peloton. Although he dismissed his injuries as being superficial, Contador said that he exp🐽ects to continue feeling the effects of the crash on Monday, a rugged day along the Corsican coast with the second category Col de Marsolino just before the finish.
“48 hours after a fall is usually the worst day and when it hurts the most,”🥃 h𝐆e said. “We’ll have to see if there are any complications and if I’m in top condition for the team time trial in Nice.”
ꩵAlthough Chris Froome (Sky) briefly went on the offensive on the final climb of Sunday’s stage, Contador opted to maintain a watching brief. C🌃ontador was grateful simply to emerge from the opening weekend without losing any time, having conceded over a minute when he crashed on the opening stage of his last Tour appearance two years ago.
“Unlike in 2011, when I left a minute and a half behind me on the first stage, I’m on the same time as all the rest of the favourites and my options for the general classification are intact,” he said.
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