Froome yesterday after his fall in the heavy mountain stage in the Vuelta. Photo EPA / Javier Lizon
Tour winner Chris Froome leaves the Vuelta with a broken foot. That Froome has announced this morning on Twitter. Yesterday was Froome who advance as the favorite for the overall win in the Tour of Spain was seen involved in a crash and he lost a lot of time in the difficult mountain stage to Andorra.
Froome clashed yesterday early in the ride crashed on a wooden deposition and a stone wall. As a result of the fall finished the leader of Sky on nine minutes from stage winner Mikel Landa. In the overall ranking dropped Froome to fifteenth place, with more than seven minutes behind the Italian Fabio Aru, who took over the leader’s jersey from Tom Dumoulin.
On Twitter he left tonight already know that it was unlikely he today the bike was steps:
Froome said yesterday after the stage that the fall “much pain” did and that he himself is “just could force users to cycle to the finish.” With the help of his teammates could Froome initially come back and riding in the peloton, but on the Collada de la Gallina, the toughest climb of the ride from Andorra, he had to solve permanently.
was in July Froome three the best weeks in the Tour de France, a victory that cost him much strength, he said earlier. “I like to compete for the overall win, but I must be honest with myself. It’s going to be very difficult because I had to give everything to win the Tour. “
His Team Sky has, however, in the standings a second contender. Spaniard Mikel Nieve stands eighth in just under two minutes ahead of series leader Aru
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