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EFE · Road Competition · 09/19/2020
Colombian cyclist Miguel Ángel López (Astana) was left without a podium in the Tour de France after the time trial and went to sixth place overall, a result that he accepts with resignation, admitting that “I failed in the end”.
“It is the first Tour, I dreamed of the podium and I was excited. The important thing is that I fought until the end, but someone always has to lose and today it was my turn,” he said at the finish line.
The 26-year-old cyclist from Boyacá was third in the 2018 Giro and Vuelta and aspired to complete the circle with another podium in the Tour, but the climber who won at Col de la Loze sank against the clock, his beast black.
“It has been a difficult time, for me a difficult day, I did not feel good at the end. I arrived tired, I did well and I am happy in general, but today I failed,” he adds.
`Supermán´ accepted the defeat, bitter when it happened forcefully on the last day of real competition. He went from third to sixth place, overtaken by Australian Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo) and Spaniards Mikel Landa (Bahrain-McLaren) and Enric Mas (Movistar).
“I tried, you always have to get to play the final, as if it were a football match, but there is always a loser and I have failed. The others have been better, you have to accept it,” he concludes.
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