The Spanish Oier Lazkano, fifth of this Thursday’s stage in the Tour de France, regretted not achieving the victory and pointed that out lack of experience.
“This is my first Tour and I have many things to learn. My intention is to win this stage. I’ve never been to such a big escape, I’ve seen them on TV but from the inside they’re hard to handle. I marked this day as 18 on the calendar, but it’s gone.“said the Movistar Team cyclist.
The Spanish runner was part of the breakaway of 30 who became the protagonist of the day, but did not jump on the Belgian attack Victor Campenaertswhich turned out to be a good tire.
“I’m angry because he told me that on the second day in Cecinatico I will win this stage. And he has done it. He has a lot of experience and expertise. From the very beginning I saw that he could do it and He was ahead of me. “I thought the others would come out of their wheel, but they haven’t and they haven’t,” he said.
Lazkano was left in another pack with cyclists of the stature of Richard Carapaz or Jai Hindley“which was more tired because they were also on a breakout the day before and it was very difficult, 140 straight.”
The Spaniard regrets not making the right decisions on the run. “180 pulses are hard to handle, you see a tenth of the things you see on TV. You have to learn to have that calm pointof retrospection,” he said.
Even though he tried for days, Lazkano was not satisfied: “I came to win (…) Cycling owes nothing to anyone. Everyone comes with overtraining“He’s killed himself to go, he owes nothing to anyone.”
Source: La Verdad
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