Enric Mas and Richard Carapaz quit the Tour de France after a spectacular crash

Spanish enric mas (Movistar) and an Ecuadorian Richard Caparaz they left Tour of France after suffering heavy drop with 24 km to go the first stage of the Tour de France, which starts and ends in Bilbao.

What bad luck…

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Both fell on the descent of the Vivero pass, the penultimate mountain difficulty of the day. The Ecuadorian got up limping after a few minutes on the asphalt and although he got back on the bike, he lost many minutes compared to the peloton. He ended up dropping out of the race on the first day.

Sebastían Unzué, one of the two directors of Movistar, admitted that the start of the Tour de France, with the fall of its leader Enrico Mas, was “a heavy blow, one day” from which they must “recover” and “look forward” already facing the Vuelta and España.

Unzué also assured that Movistar had no other option for the general. “No, the first and only option for the general classification was Enric,” Navarčanin said, assuming that “sports are like that, cycling is like that.” Unzué is clear that if Mas didn’t try to get back into the race after the crash, it was because he “couldn’t”. “He got up a lot,” he recalled.

The second director of Movistar, Patxi Vila, although he does not know him yet, believes that the Spaniard’s injury is in the “scapula, in the shoulder” and says with regret that this is “the worst way to start the Tour”. “But we will have to sit down and accept it as an opportunity”, he tried to cheer up and cheer up his team.