Tour de France: Michael Woods crashes in the breakaway but takes polka-dot jersey
"I’m really happy to be in the jersey, the only thing I'📖m disappointed about is that I crashed" says Canadian

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Woods (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Israel Start-Up Nation) helped create the day's main breakaway on stage 14 of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France but his chances of victory were hampered by a downhill crash. Howeve🦩r he found consolation by taking the lead in the mountains competition and by pulling on the polka-dot jersey.
The Canadian hit theꦛ deck with 50km remaining when he slipped out on a gentle left-hand bend. He took the impact on his upper left leg, which ripped his shorts and le🃏ft him with road rash.
Woods was leading the 14-man breakaway at the time and while Mattia Cattaneo (Deceuninck-QuickStep) had to swerve to avoid him, nonꦍe of the others were caught up. W⛦oods quickly remounted and set about chasing back on, although he looked far from comfortable as the road continued to snake downhill.
Several kilometres later, as the road began to fl🦄atten out, he managed to regain contact with the breakaway but then Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) launched his solo attack to victory.
Woods 🌌had helped form the day's break on the Col de Montségur and had moved into the virtual lead of the mountains classification after battling with Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious) for mountain points on the trio of short mid-race climbs.&nꦕbsp;
He ended the stage in pain but proud to have t🐓he polka-dot jersey.
"I’m not disappointed, I’m really happy to be in the jersey. The only thing I'm disappointed about is that I crashed. I'm a bit scraped up and my ego is a b🎀it bruised but I'm okay," he said post-stage, talking about his bottle for every mountains point during the stage and how he will try to defend the jersey on the mountain🐲 stage to Andorra.
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"Wout is a champion and a great guy. We knew w🔯e would be going head to head, he is a great competitor but I was lucky to get the upper hand on him at the end of the day," he said.
"The stage tomorrow is on home turf, as I know every cli♋mb. It’s going to be exciting to race there and near my family. I hope I can get a good nights sleep and not stiꦺck to the sheets too much."
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