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The 107th edition of Tour de France He had his first day of rest this Monday, September 7, after an intense week that decided what will be the rest of the competition and left the Slovenian Primoz Roglic as leader, while Egan bernal it’s second 21 seconds.
During this day, the teams took the opportunity for their runners to regain energy thinking about what the second week will be with demanding flat tests with winds and the return to the high mountains.
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Additionally, the squads took the opportunity for their main leaders to speak to the media in virtual press conferences. One of those candidates for the general classification who gave his statements was the Colombian Rigoberto Uran, maximum benchmark of Ef Pro Cycling.
In his dialogue with the media, Urán praised his compatriots Nairo Quintana and Egan Bernal, who have been the most prominent ‘beetles’ so far on the Tour, but also referred to other rivals for the ‘yellow jersey’, Primoz Roglic and Tadej Pogacar.
“Egan and Nairo are doing very well. Roglic is doing super well. Pogacar discounted a lot. We have to wait and there is much left ”, the runner born in Urrao pointed out.
Rigo spoke of how demanding the Tour de France is despite the news it presents due to the coronavirus pandemic “the only difference on this Tour is that we run without fans, the pressure and intensity is the same as always.”
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Finally, the cyclist who is sixth overall, 32 seconds behind Roglic, said that all the members of Ef Pro Cycling have undergone Covid tests in the last weeks and have always returned negative results, so they are calm about the Results that they will receive this Tuesday in the massive ones that were made to the whole peloton.
“Super good, I have taken about 15 tests in the last days, yesterday they made the whole team, everyone negative, this morning too and we were training,” he said.
