Tour de France: Uran philosophical despite losing time on the cobbles
'We🅠 💝haven't climbed a single mountain' says Colombian




168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Rigoberto Uran (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:EF Education First-Drapac) was the biggest casualty of the cobbled chaos on stage 9 of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, as🍸ide from Richie Porte, who crashed out of th☂e race with a suspected broken collarbone.
Uran crashed on the Moulin de Vertain pavé sector with just over 30km to go and was forced into a long and ultimately futile chase. He had to stop again to change his damaged bike but had team♒mates who dropped back and helped try and limit the damage.
As he crossed the line, however, the gaps made for depressing reading: 1:28 lost to his general classification rivals. Indeed, the blow was worsened by the fact that no one else lost time, save for a modeᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚst seven seconds for Mikel Landa (Movistar) and Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale).
Arriving back aಌt the EF-Drapac team bus in Roubaix, U⛦ran got straight on and into the shower to wash the dust away and then patch up his road rash. Despite cries of 'Rigo! Rigo!' from the gathering Colombian fans, he would not come out for a good hour and a half after he crossed the line.
When he did 🍸finally appear, he was surprisingly upbeat, laughing and joking with the fans and media. "Bastante bien," he said of the day – 'pretty good'.
"These are obstacles that are thrown a𒁏t you, but you have to keep going♐."
Uran always prefers to look ahe⭕ad rather than behind and so ra꧅ther than dwell on the time lost on the roads of 'The Hell of the North', he spoke of the mountains to come in the second half of the race.
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"A new Tour sta꧑rts now," he said. "We've got both and the Alps and the Pyrenees ahe♌ad of us. There's a long way to go. The important thing is to recover and start afresh.
"Every stage is important. Now the Tour changes significantly. We've only had nine days of flat stages, we don't really know how strong our rivals are, we don'tꦰ really know how strong we are, because we've not climbed a single mountain."
Not everyone in the EF-Drapac camp managed to maintain such an upbeat outlook. Taylor Phinney, Tom Scully and other riders who'd been with Rigo when he came down and spoke about the chase, but they were all forced to come to terms wiꦚth a significant blow to their hopes of repeati🥂ng – or even bettering – Uran's runner-up finish of last year.
The mountains lie ahead, but Uran will start them in 22nd place, more than two minutes down on the top yellow jersey𓄧 c꧂ontender.
"Everything was fine until Rigo crashed, then it wasn't so fine. One minute 30, to the main guys, it's not ideal," directeur sportif Tom Southam told Cyclingnews.
"To start with I thought it was fine, and they'd come back𒆙 quite easily because there was 6km of tarmac straightaway afterwards. But🥀 didn't happen.
"Physically he has some scratches. Mentally he's fine. He doesn't get too up or 🐲too down about that stuff. We've seen other guys lose similar chunks with more straightforward finishes. On a day like today, it just can ha🐟ppen.
"It will be difficult to ma꧃ke that much time back now... but, we'll see."
Patrick is a freelance sports writer and editor. He’s an NCTJ-accredited journalist with a bachelor’🥀s degree in modern languages (French and Spanish). Patrick worked full-time at Cyclingnews for eight years between 2015 and 20🦄23, latterly as Deputy Editor.