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The Belgian Philippe Gilbert, who suffers a fractured patella in his right knee after a fall in the first stage of the Tour on Saturday, will not continue in the race, announced his team, Lotto, as well as the Spaniard Rafael Valls, from Bahrain, also due to a fall.
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Gilbert, one of the active cyclists with the best record in the classics, was involved in one of the many crashes that occurred in the first stage, in the vicinity of Nice.
The Belgian was able to finish the stage, but an MRI performed on Saturday night showed the fracture in the kneecap.
Hopefully there are no more casualties, but this part, by noon, could grow after yesterday🙏🏻@RafaVallsFerri: Femur fracture.@PhilippeGilbert: Patella fracture.@johndegenkolb: It went out of control.#TourEnCOPE https://t.co/r9Vd4O7LQo
– Heriberto Frade (@herifrade) August 30, 2020
“I had pain, a pain that I recognized”, noted Gilbert, who left the 2018 Tour for an identical reason after a crash in the Pyrenees.
Another runner, Valls, He will not start the second stage either, as he suffered a fracture of the right femur, the Bahrain team said.
For the Lotto he is the second cyclist to lose, after the German John Degenkolb, another of his important men, got out of control in the first stage.
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“Today I lost everything. Everything I had worked and trained for in this special 2020. Caleb Ewan and I, with many runners, we suffered a fall, the ground was wet. My Tour de France has been destroyed from day one, “said Degenkolb.
This Sunday the second stage of the Tour is held, 186 kilometers again around Nice but with a more mountainous profile than the first.
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