Sergio Higuita withdrew from the Tour de France 2020 – Cycling – Sports

The queen stage of Tour de France 2020, which will have a high end, did not start well for Colombian cycling. One of the country’s representatives in the race had to abandon the race in the first kilometers of the stage.

Is about Sergio Andrés Higuita, the national road champion, who retired after having suffered two falls at the beginning of the fifteenth fraction.

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The first fall occurred 161 kilometers from the finish line, when the Colombian was at the head of the pack, trying to get into a breakout. He looked back and didn’t see that Bob jungels it crossed him. He touched it and it went to the ground.

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Later, Radio Tour reported a new fall of Higuita at the entrance of a roundabout. The Colombian national champion was almost two minutes behind the main batch when he decided to abandon the race because of the blows suffered.

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Higuita occupied 16th place in the general classification, 26 minutes and 12 seconds behind the leader, the Slovenian Primoz Roglic (Jumbo Visma).

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In addition, he was fourth in the youth classification, 25 minutes and 28 seconds behind the leader of that classification, the also Slovenian Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates).

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