Tumultuous Clásica prey for Adam Yates – Yahoo! News

This year it was chaos trump in the final of the cycling classic Clásica San Sebastián, which was eventually won by Adam Yates. The 22 year old Briton did not know there myself and was told after the finish of others that he was the one who first crossed the finish line.

Yates thought there are people for him reason. That was not the case, such as a motorcycle racer Greg Van Avermaet had ridden his bike. The Belgian rode at that time only in the lead.

The way Yates cheered for his biggest win of his fledgling career was telling. He was already 10 meters before the finish line he raised doubtfully hands in the air. “Unbelievable. I won, but there had no idea, ” the Briton said afterwards.” I made contact with my team leader, but I could not understand him. I went on the last climb in the attack and passed some people. Then I suddenly saw much turmoil in an accident with a motorcycle. As I drove along, but I had no idea whether I did the lead themselves. “

When Yates his attack set actually knew anyone who was in front. The organization had big problems to get in touch with the cameras on the engines, live images were barely That was also the reason that nobody knew at that time that Van Avermaet was hit Belgians took himself clear on Twitter:.. “I would win the Clásica San Sebastián. A motorcycle ran into me and I ended up on the ground. My game was over. Organization bravo, bravo moto, “said the angry rider from BMC. His team called the crash” unacceptable “.

Fuglsang
The accident was reminiscent of the eighteenth stage the Tour de France. When the Dane Jakob Fuglsang was, that was part of the leading group, to the ground hit by a motorcyclist. He was therefore, like Van Avermaet in San Sebastian, a chance for the stage win and the mountain jersey. Van Avermaet could by the collision of the ball, even not finish.

Yates was not distracted by the commotion in the crash and drove hard through. It was only in the sight of the fixed cameras became clear that he would win the race. At fifteen seconds behind the Belgian Philippe Gilbert sprinted to second place ahead of Spaniard Alejandro Valverde, with the winner of last year. Bauke Mollema sprinted well and finished sixth.

Reuters