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Nairo Quintana did not have an easy day in the Tour de France, but he reduced the loss to the maximum with other favorites, giving up just 11 ” in the ninth stage with which the first week of the competition in the Pyrenees closed.
The leader of the Arkéa-Samsic ranks acknowledged that it was a difficult day and that he hopes that the rest will help him to be better in the second and third week of the Tour: “As you have seen, It was not a very good day for me, but we carried on with optimism, we continued in the fight“.
The Boyacense is already focused on what is coming and is aware of the precautions they must take in the next two days, which are on flat terrain, but as an example is the seventh stage, in which the fans hurt some of the top 10.
“We hope that the days to come will be better. There will be two relatively flat stages, but there will be a lot of wind and we will have to defend ourselves well and avoid wasting timeQuintana added.
Nairo is one of the four Colombians who reach the first day of rest in the top 10 of the general classification. The Arkéa-Samsic man sits in the fifth box 32 ” behind Primoz Roglic, who wore yellow after Adam Yates lost almost a minute.
