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At kilometer 30 of a stage where the Pyrenees become Slovenian mountains (Pogacar First, Roglic in yellow after defeating Yates) in the queue of the group, where sprinters and convalescents float, an Italian drama unfolds: Fabio Aru gets off the motorcycle and gets on the broom truck. Aru, who won the Vuelta in 2015, Aru twice on the Giro podium, Aru’s yellow jersey on the Tour.
A scene seen too many times in the last three years pto be one of the highest paid brokers (2.8 million euros per year) in the world. Not even the moment to metabolize the abandonment that Giuseppe thunders to Rai’s microphones Saronni, from Emirates di Fabio currently “advisor”. Words of fire on the athlete («No.He’s not even in a position to help Pogacar. For the umpteenth time we have been disappointed. Fabio in difficulty does not know how to encourage himself, mentally and morally collapses“) But also against his own team:”The fault lies with those who called the pilot to the Tour without understanding that he was not in conditions, I had understood ». As if Aru had not been selected by the Tour team, a team where the Sardinian has always seemed like a foreign body.
It arrived in 2018, has collected withdrawals (in the 2018 Tour, in the 2019 Vuelta), you quit and, after attributing his problems to a blocked iliac artery, he underwent a “repair operation” that solved nothing. Followed by former teammate Tiralongo (who is not a coach), Aru is consumed in endless solitary workouts, arriving headless and legless at the races.. The one that runs at the end of the race is a cross between mea culpa and epitaph: «I don’t deserve it, neither does the team to which I cannot make the expected contribution. I can’t think about the future. On Monday the Tour rests. Aru thinks about retirement, the opponents of the cyborgs Roglic and Pogacar reflect on how to put them in crisis between the Massif Central, the Vosges and the Alps. The opposition front is fierce: a growing Bernal (2nd), a pleasant Martín (3rd) surprise, a Bardet, a Uran and a Quintana in great shape locked in just 33 ”.
September 6, 2020 (change September 6, 2020 | 23:56)
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