Team Ineos leader praises Ineos teammates for quick r✱eꩵactions on stage 8
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Michal Kwiatkowski and Gianni Moscon g🦄ive Geraint Thomas a push (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
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Ineos riders ꧙pace Geraint Th▨omas back onto the peloton (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
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Ineos riders pace Geraint ꦗThomas back onto 💝the peloton (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
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Geraint Thomas gets up after a crash (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Team Ineos co-leader 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Geraint Thomas was in good spirits ahead of the start of stage 9 of the Tour de France. Emerging from the team bus in Sa👍int-Étienne, Thomas was gre﷽eted by a throng of reporters and was happy to take the time to talk though his crash towards the end of stage 8.
The Welshman went down at the base of the final climb of theꦕ day, 13 kilometres from the line. It was EF Education First's Michael Woods who hit the ground first, and a number of Ineos riders couldn't avoid the mini pile-up that ensued.
"It could've been a lot worse for sure," Thomas said⛎. "We managed to make the best of the situation."
With the help of a push start from Moscon and Michał Kwiatkowski, and later pulls from Wout Poels, Dylan Van Baarle and Jonathan Castroviejo, the team mounted a furious chase, bringing Thomas back to the peloton by the top of the Côte de Jaillere.
"Just everyone kind of knew what to do," he said about the immediate aftermath of the crash. "I had a feeling of like ‘oh, this isn't ideal', knowing how far there was to go and how close it was to the last climb, but fortunately I had all the guys 🔥around me.
"I was struggling with my shorts stuck on Gianni's bike somewhere, and Kwi🗹atkowski was straight to picking up my bike🌱.
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"We got [the chain] on really quick, and I 🐼jumped on and them him and Gianni pushed me off. I still had three guys, so it was really good. Everyone did it instantly and saved me."
Kwiatkowski, who was conducting an interview nearby𒊎, confirmed that the team's reaction൲ to the crash was instinctual.
When asked about how the crash &ndas💧h; his second in the space of four weeks after crashing out of the Tour de Suisse – would affect his racing going forwards, Thomas was dismissive of the suggestion that Ineos would al♉ter their positioning heading into climbs or descents.
"I don't think [we will]," he said. "It's j🐽ust one of those things. These crashes happen, and it's no🍒t like Woods was trying to crash. It just happens.
"It seem♍s to happen a lot to me though. But like I said, I've been fortunate that there's no real damage."
Dani Ostanek is Senior News Writer at Cyclingnews, having joined in 2017 as a freelance contributor and later being hired full-time. Before joining th💎e team, she had written for numerous major publications in the cycling world, including Cycling Weekly and Rouleur.
