Sensitive loss within the team Soudal-Quick Step starting this Thursday. His main bet on sprint arrivals, the Dutch Fabio Jakobsen, was forced to abandon the race. He European champion was unable to recover from the fall he suffered in the fourth stage at ‘Big Boucle’ and seeing that it wasn’t as competitive, he decided to get off the bike today.
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“Due to my fall in the fourth stage, and after discussing it with the team, we decided that it would be better for me to end my presence here in Tour de France. At the moment it seems impossible to reach Parisbecause I haven’t recovered and my body hasn’t recovered from the accident”, said the runner of Gorinchem in the statements collected by his team.
Stage winner in the last edition of the Tour, the second in Nyborg, Jakobsen said that he is “very sad to leave the ‘Grande Boucle’, because he has great goals for this race and wants to be as good as possible with the team . Now I will take some time to recover and I hope to be back at my best level later this season,” said the 26-year-old.
Jakobsen, who ended his contract this season with Soudal-Quick Stephad a fourth place in Bayonne as the best result in this Tour.
Source: La Verdad
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