Cycling. Critérium du Dauphiné – Remco Evenepoel: “My fall?” No explanation but … “

Remco Evenepoel lived a first day in yellow far from ideal. Indeed, the Belgian of the Soudal Quick-Step was not varnished on this 5th stage of the Dauphiné criterium. At first, it is his faithful lieutenant Louis Vervaeke who dropped 115 kilometers from the finish. The latter was forced to abandon and exams revealed that he suffers from a clavicle fracture. Then it's the turn ofEvenepoel To herself know misfortunes, since he fell in the last roundabout of the day, under the red flame. But more fear than harm for the yellow jersey, which was immediately left and which was assigned the same time as the rest of the peloton.

VIDEO – The reaction of Remco Evenepoel after this 5th step

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The fall of Remco Evenepoel in the final of the 5th stage of the criterium of #Dauphiné.

“I do not feel pain, I just have a scratch in the right knee, but it will be without consequences for the future,” assured the Belgian.

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“Tomorrow (Friday) you will have to be ready, it will be the first big test”

“I do not really have the explanation of what happened on my fall in the final. But I had very wet hands and the handlebars dropped me with my hands. In any case I do not feel pain, I just have a scratch in the right knee, but it will be without consequences for the future”, said Evenepoel on arrival.

“I did not first realize that Benjamin Thomas was only 1'50 '' to the general, so Lidl-Trek asked us to participate in the pursuit. We went there because it was a good idea, it also allowed us to ride forward from problems”he continues. “For tomorrow (Friday) you will have to be ready, it will be the first big test of the battle that we are going to have for three days. The final climb perhaps represents twenty minutes of effort to the maximum and it is not much compared to what we will have on Saturday. In any case there will certainly be many candidates for the escape, it will be well animated at the start. And then we will still see who is a little less.”