15 kilometers at the end of the eighth stage of Back to Spain and at full throttle of the peloton to try to break away, Ciccone and Juaristi and Umba in what, at first, seems like the classic sharpener. After being treated by their respective teams and medical services, both were able to get back on the bike to finish the stage.
At the end of the stage, which ended in victory for Primoz Roglicthe organization released a statement in which it reported the cause of the fall involving the three cyclists mentioned above. “Kilometer 140: fall, when hit by a roe deer,” read the statement. An event that was not captured by the television cameras but they saw in the first person, in addition to the cyclists, the members of the different teams. Esteban Peña, UAE mechanic, said this on his social networks. “Three roe deer jumped on the cars, one fell on top of the Euskaltel car and knocked over a bicycle before leaving. If I hadn’t seen it I wouldn’t have believed it,” he wrote.
A disaster that neither Ciccone nor Juaristi will ever forget. It remains to be seen whether the multiple bruises as a result of the fall will affect his performance in the rest of the Vuelta a España.
Source: La Verdad
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