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TOUR DE FRANCE | 06/09/2020 | 14:43
by Francesca Monzone
The Tour and the Pyrenees continue to accumulate setbacks and when there were 121 kilometers to go to the end came the withdrawal of Fabio Aru (UAE Emirates). The thirty-year-old Sardinian had detached himself from the group and in a moment of difficulty turned with nervous gestures towards the nearby bicycle. Today’s stage had started immediately with a high pace and Aru (almost 47 km per hour), for many kilometers ran at the bottom of the group and just before the climb of Col de la Hourcère, decided to abandon the race. After a day in which the knight of the Four Moors had been in the spotlight, yesterday he had suffered a long delay in the first stage in the Pyrenees. So today still delayed and the option to drop out Unfortunately, the times of victory on the 2017 Tour are behind him, when he first crossed the finish line at La Planche des Belles Filles. Today is the third Italian training camp in less than 24 hours.
Yesterday Giacomo Nizzolo retired first due to a leg problem and then Diego Rosa, with a broken clavicle after a fall in the race. With Aru, therefore, there are 3 riders who have left the Tour and 13 remain in the race.
Then he came by phone to the unclear and very clear words of Beppe Saronni, contacted by Rai Due and interviewed by Francesco Pancani and Marco Saligari. «Fabio Aru is not the condition that he, that we and his teammates hoped to at least help an important rider like Tadej Pogacar who is there where the Tour is played. We are very sorry, but it is clear that it has already been for some Fabio Aru’s week is not in conditions. In this way there is also little to check, for the umpteenth time Fabio disappointed us, at a time when we needed him so much ».
So Francesco Pancani asks the Goodwood champion if there is also a mental and character problem in Aru, and Saronni goes straight: “When physically and muscularly the athlete is suffering, some find the clarity and strength to react., Fabio, by On the other hand, he does not do that. In terms of character, he is not very strong. In difficulty you do not give him courage, unfortunately he collapses mentally and morally and makes everything more difficult. It is clear that there is a strong character component here. ”
Whose responsibility? they ask him. “When you have a rider who has this and is in these physical conditions, it is clear that on the Tour you have one less rider who can help the team, and that is why I think you also have to look for a certain responsibility in those who took Fabio Aru to the Tour It is true, Fabio wanted to go to France, but it is also true that there are those who are forced to understand if this rider is capable of running a race as difficult and important as the Tour.
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