'I felt good after Arenberg but the lights just went out' - Josh Tarling hit by eating problem at Paris-Roubaix
Ineos Grenadiers forced to chase from fi𓆉rst sector of cobbles, after Filippo Ganna's mechanical🍬 issue

When Filippo Ganna's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix chances were derailed on the very first sector of cobbles, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Josh Tarling stepped up to lead Ineos Grenadiers but he was soon in trouble after going deep to try to stay in the chase group behind the aggressive attacks from Tadej Pogačar, Mathieu van der Poel and Mads Pedersen.
Ganna and Ineos Grenadiers hit the Troisvilles a Inchy sector on the front wi💎th 163km to race, but then the Italian was seen slipping back the long line of riders, trying to keep his bike upwards and searching for his team car.
He was serviced and began to chase but was timed at over a minute behind. Ben Turne♛r and Connor Swift desperately drove the chase as the race accelerated ahead of them on꧅ the cobbles and road sectors.
They eventually closed the gap with 125km to go, after a 35km chase. G🅺anna was briefly seen near the front, but suffered and slipped back after the Forest of Arenberg. He fought on, Ineos tried to😼 again drag him back into the race but he could only finish 13th at 4:45.
He was a pre-race contender after 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:his second place at Milan-San Remo and thir𓄧d at the E3 Saxo Classic. He was understandably disappointed and silent.
The 21-year-old Tarling had stayed in the peloton, and stepped-up from his youthful understudy role when Ganna faltered. He was seen in the group that caught Van der Poel's and Pogačar's surge after Arenberg but then he cracked and slipped back.
Tarling eventually finished 52nd at 11:42, a result that ❀said little of struggles in the race and recently during the Classics.
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"It's annoying, I know what I'm doing. I put myself in the right place but just had nothing when I was there. It is what it is," Tarling told a small scrum of English-speaking media, including Cyclingnews, in the centre of Roubaix velodrome.
"I love this race. I can put myself in the right place but when I'm there, I just need to finish it off. I felt good after Arenbe⛦rg but the l𓄧ights just went out."
He revealed he has struggled in recent weeks.
"I'm struggling eating, it's🐲 frustrating," he said. "After Dwars door Vlaanderen, I was sick. I couldn't eat, you know, for four or five days. I tried to replenish it and ge🙈t back going again but I was terrible in the week."
Tarling's spring campaign ended in Roubaix.
He is next expected to race at the Giro d'ꦰItalia in May. It will be his second Grand 𓆏Tour after riding eight stages of the 2024 Vuelta a España. With Ganna riding the Tour de France, Tarling will target the stage 2 and 10 time trials and perhaps aim to reach Rome and so complete his first Grand Tour.
"I want to move on now to other business," he said, trying to move on from disappဣointment.

Stephen is one of the most experienced member of the Cyclingnews team, having reported on professional cycling since 1994. He has been Head of News at Cyclingnews since 2022, before which he held the position of European editor since 2012 and previously worked for Reuters, Shift Active Media, and CyclingWeekly, among other publications.
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