Crash robs Geoghegan Hart of contesting Tour of Britain queen stage
Alex Peters now 🃏Great Britain Team&rsquo𒁏;s highest ranked rider
A clash of bikes on the final climb up Hartside ruined promising talent 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tao Geoghegan Hart’s chance of fighting for the queen stage at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Britain.
On the last climb, the 20-year-old riding for the Great Britain team made the final group of favourites which included his team-mate Alex Peters, stage winner Wout Poels (Sky), and new yellow jersey, Edvald Boasson Hagen (MTN-Qhubeka). However in the blustery conditions on the exposed road, Geoghegan Hart’s bike was pulled from u🌟nder him when his handlebars were hooked by another rider about 4kms from the summit. He hit the deck.
Geoghegan Hart tweeted afterwards: “Taken out 4km to go when rider came up inside & hooked my bars. @♐alexpeters_94 & I both in🌜 front group. Broken bike meant end of GC hopes.”
Team-mate Peters said after finishing 12th, 25 seconds down on the stage: &💖ldquo;Tao got in a tangle with a rider because the wind’s really sಞhifty here, so everyone’s moving at that last second.
“It was really irritating because me𒊎 and Tao are quite a duo I think. We could 😼have contested for the win,” he added.
Peters said he had been hoping to h💧elp Geoghegan Hart further up the exposed climb, but after the crash, he 𝓀chose to press on.
“If Tao needed some assistance I would have h🐲elped, but he fell. In the moment I kept on going because I didn't know what had happened – maybe he punctured or something and it’d take loa༒ds of time to put right.”
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The crash, which broke his rear derailleur, ruined Geoghegan Hart’s chance of a high GC finish and he dropped f💖rom 15th at 22 seconds yesterday to 31st today and more than five minut𝓡es. Peters now ranks as the team’s highest placed rider in 17th place.
Peters said: “I was stuck in a group that was thꦡird on the road which is a horrible position to be 💞in, because you’re out of the wind but there’s nothing really motivating there. I just whacked it in a big gear with a kilometre to go and just went.”
It is the second time Geoghegan Hart, who rides for the Axeon trade team in the United States, has suffered a high profile crash at the British Tour. Last year into Brighton, he entered a corner too fast𓆏 and crashed spectacularly into the barriers.
At the finish today, Geoghan Hart, whose light road rash was tended by medics, was visibly upset and declined to ta𓄧lk to media.
Sam started as a trainee reporter on daily newspapers in the UK before moving to South Africa where he contributed to national cycling magazine Ride for three years. After moving back to the UK he joined Procycling ꧅as a staff writer in November 2010.