Richard Carapaz left the Tour de France on Saturday immediately after the first stage due to an injury sustained 23 kilometers from the finish line.
He managed to stand up and finish the stage, but medical evaluations revealed that he suffered a “small fracture of the left knee cap,” according to the EF Education-EasyPost team’s medical report.
The Ecuadorian medalist was one of those chosen to retain the title and as a result the international press mourned his departure from the traditional Vuelta.
“It is the epilogue of the performance of the cyclist who placed himself one step below the two big favorites of the general classification, the Dane Jonas Vingegaard and the Slovenian Primoz Roglic”, the portal writes in a note. infobae.
But that he appeared as a serious candidate for the podium, despite the bad performance he had in the last Dauphine, because of the ‘cache’ that the Ecuadorian has in the peloton, he added.
And although the trip of the tricolor through the Tour was short, the Argentine media insisted on highlighting its class at these competitions.
“Carapaz showed his race, but in the last stage he left a time that excluded him from the fight for the podium,” the note said.
The rest of the season is an unknown for the Ecuadorian, who was unlucky in his first season at EF, where he arrived from Ineos, he concluded. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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