Jorgenson rues miscalculation in Tour de France breakaway
No🍰rth America🍒n 'thought the break would never make it to the finish'

Back in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France breakaway for t꧅he second time in four days, having read the moves right all day and stayed in contention, a single, late miscalculation cost North American Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar) a crack at the victory on Friday.
One of six riders who came into the final hour of racing on Friday's transition stage to Saint-Étienne with a chance of winning, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France rookie, finally fifth, could not hide his disappointment at th♋e line after missing𒀰 out.
Yet even if the knock-on effect was🤪 that he would not be in the break on Saturday, the 23-year-old said he promised he wꦐould be back in the action in the Pyrenees.
Compounding Jorgenson's frustration not just failing to make the top three at the finish, after Hugo Houle (Israel-Premier Tech), Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) and Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious) ambushed the remainder of the six-rider break with some 10 kilometres to go, was that he had read the early part of the day perfectly. And despite his later misgivings about the 'break from the break', as Movistar di𝄹rector Txente Garcia♚ Acosta had famously dubbed it, not being able to stick 'the break from the break' duly did.
"It all started on a downhill near the start, and usually breaks don't go there until the downhill ends so I sꦿtayed near the front and it went on a little kicker of a climb," Jorgenson recounted about how the move had started.
"I was following [fellow breakaway] Filippo Ganna and he had ridiculous power. The break just went on legs, it was like whoever could stay on tꦐhe wheel could make the break and whoever couldn't, woul💝dn't make it.
"Then we were kept super clos💧e the whole day, at two minutes, we had a headwind, it didn't feel right. I di♎dn't think we'd make it until 15 kilometres to go."
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But then🌄 came the error. As Jorgenson recounted, his mistake was to be shadowing Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers), as he was, he thought, the strongest. But rather than Ganna bluffing about how he was on the limit, in fact, the Italian was t𒅌elling the truth. By the time Jorgenson realised his error, he was stuck in a group with Ganna and Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ) and as he put it "they were the most tired of everyone in the break."
"I thought Küng and Ganna would attack because they were the biggest motors, so I was watching them and when Pedersen went, I saw Stefan respond and try to get on his wheel but we j♚ust didn't make it across."
With the race ebbing away from him and as the gap opened, Jorgenson began hoping that th𓃲e move ahead would implode. But✱ it didn't.
"I thought they wo𒐪uld maybe sit up, and I'd make it back in the end. But they were riding with Pedersen, I don't know why they were working with him, they didn't come back and that was that."
Jorgenson's frustration at losing out was doubled by the fact that Saturday's stage to Mende looks almost certain to end in a breakaway victory. But 𒁏it'll take time for him to regain his strength and recoup from his losses. As he put it, "when you have the legs and form to make it in the break, ꧑it's disappointing that you don't even make onto the [stage] podium."
Next up though, is how to recoup his losses and Jorgenson, just minutes after the defe൲at of stage 13, was looking how to do better furt꧋her down the line.
"I'm sure therꦺe's more to come, I need to recover from this one, that's why it's so disappointing when you really empty t🅰he tank. You can't be in the break again soon and tomorrow would have been a good day for it. So I'll hopefully recover and be in the breaks in the Pyrenees."
Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The Independent, The Guardian, ProCycling, The Express and Reuters.