“We don’t cycle for that, the last time I saw such a fall was William Bonnet on the Tour, in 2015“, he first explained, very moved at the microphone of France Info. The Groupama-FDJ rider had suffered a fracture of the second cervical vertebra and the images of his fall and the minutes that followed had marked the peloton. According to Bardet, the crash was caused by two riders colliding in front of him.”Nobody wanted to brake, we were driving at 80 km/h. No one stops at this speed“.
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“He couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe”
For RMC, he revealed that Alaphilippe himself told him he couldn’t move: “It lasted forever. I didn’t want to touch him, you don’t have to in those cases. I tried to call people but the cars were blocked. It lasted forever. Maybe 4-5 minutes but I thought… It was really shocking as a scene“.
“He was conscious but couldn’t really speak, he said again. Jreally hope he’s okay. There were so many guys involved, you couldn’t see Julian from the road. After that, I was shocked, my run was over. I was lucky to get away with it without injury“. Left, Bardet finally gave up and did not join Liège. For him, all that was no longer worth it after what he had seen. “JI felt really great, but chasing after it didn’t really make sense anymore“, confirmed the recent winner of the Tour of the Alps.
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