Frenchman Thibaut Pinot, who fell on Saturday 3 kilometers from the finish of the first stage of the Tour de France, “hurts everywhere but nothing is broken”, he assured Sunday at the start of the 2nd stage in Nice. "It's okay, I had better waking up. I have a bit of pain everywhere this morning but nothing broken so the road continues", wanted to reassure the climber of Groupama-FDJ, after a night to heal his wounds like almost everything the peloton, of which few members escaped the succession of falls of the 1st stage, largely contested in the rain.
"Once I have rolled it will unlock a bit"
"There is a lot of stiffness on the right side, I have a bruise on my back because a competitor got into me on my fall", detailed the winner of the Tourmalet on the 2019 Tour. more that worries me, even if the bruise is in the back ", added the unhappy hero of the last Big Loop.
Regarding the trauma to one of his knees, diagnosed by his team, Thibaut Pinot "hopes that hot things will get better". "Even my body, once I have rolled, it will unlock a bit", predicted the leader of Groupama-FDJ who repeated to have "lived one of (s) worst days on the bike" the day before with "stress all the way".