32-year-old Nairo Quintana closed an eventful day with honor on the first stage of the Tour de France entering the Pyrenees. Boyacense from Arkea was just one of the supposed favorites to resist the pace of Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, the two men who led the big one. Finally, his effort was summed up in one sentence: After step 16, Nairo Quintana is one of the Tour de France’s top five.
The 16th stage of the Tour de France started with emotions before the march started. It’s all due to dropouts of boys who fuel the competition, like the German Kamna.
Three riders, France’s Mikaël Chérel and Aurélien Paret-Peintre (AG2R Citroën) and Germany’s Max Walscheid (Cofidis), tested positive for the coronavirus and left the Tour de France on Tuesday before stage 16 in Carcassonne began.
He also stated that German Lennard Kamna, who caught a cold, also gave up on continuing the race, as the Bora team explained, and that the daily covid tests gave negative results in the case of the winner.
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Total, Eleven cyclists have abandoned the Tour due to coronavirus since its start in CopenhagenWhere 176 cyclists gather. Chérel and Paret-Peintre are two asymptomatic cases cited by the International Cycling Union (UCI), which carried out a general scan of the entire peloton before the last day on Sunday.
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Then the start of the race, an early departure, the leadership of Russian Aleksandr Vlasov and the resistance of favorites Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar marked the day.
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Initially, there were 29 runners participating in the escape. Vlasov then tried to set the pace, Van Aert attacked, but neither could finish the day ahead.
Fifty kilometers away, the flock of sideburns began to move. Pogacar attacked Vingegaard, but Vingegaard countered. Nairo Quintana stood tall in all these comings and goings.
With about 25 miles left, Adam Yates looked tired. Quintana tried to gain an advantage.
At the end of the day, Canadian Hugo Houle took the stage. Quintana has entered the ‘top 5’ of the general classification and is excited for the podium.
Boyacense ranks fourth overall. How much separates him from the leader?: Tour de France 2022: 16th stage general classification and classification).
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