In a career like Cycling Tour in Catalonia The tension was palpable every day, and each day there were touches and scuffles between the cyclists. It is often thought that these racing situations are limited to sprint finishes, when there are narrows in the road or when the wind is constantly blowing.
But tense situations are also experienced in boarding ports, as revealed by Dutch runner Wout Poels. The member of Bahrain-Victoriusin the In Koers podcast, explained an incident he had with the Colombian cyclist Nairo Quintana, which in the last stage of the Volta in Barcelona had to be abandoned after the fall suffered on the approach to Montjuïc circuit.
“We were in a port and I wanted to improve my position. Nobody would let me through and I decided to wheel Enric Mas“. This placement in the ascent placed him next to Nairo Quintana. As Poels explained, “he threw me an elbow”, and upon receiving it “I asked him why he did that and was so aggressive he. “Then I jokingly asked him if he was still using tramadol.”
Cortina came out in defense of her ally Nairo
Aware of his words -Nairo was disqualified sa Tour de France 2022 for taking the aforementioned painkiller – Poels thought “maybe I shouldn’t have told him, but he was stupid enough to use it on Tour.”
Many more. Ivan García Cortina, Nairo Quintana’s teammate in the telephone squad, came to the Colombian cyclist’s defense and, according to Poels, hit him on the arm. Upon reaching the finish line, the Dutchman filed a complaint and Cortina was penalized.
Source: La Verdad
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