Bad direction but good spirit: Italian Elisa Longo Borghini, one of the favorites of the Tour de France Women, said she was "sorry" for taking the wrong direction in the final of the 5th stage on Thursday and encouraged the rest of the peloton to "laugh" at his mistake.
“The main thing is that I didn't cause any crashes or hurt any runners.
This kind of thing can be very dangerous.
Sorry peloton, I don't know what happened.
You just have to laugh at me, that's fine with me”, made amends to the fourth in the general classification.
🇮🇹 Throwback to Elisa Longo Borghini's improbable mistake in the final of the 5th stage.
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Luckily, Longo Borghini neither lost time nor hit the yellow jersey Marianne Vos, very close to the leader of Trek-Segafredo when she turned left to take the bypass intended to evacuate the racing vehicles. 400 meters from the line.
“It's my mistake, insisted the winner of Paris-Roubaix in the spring.
I knew the end and I knew I had to go straight but suddenly I thought I had to turn left.
I even panicked a bit because I wasn't expecting this turn.
(…) Sorry everyone, I hope I made you laugh.
"Well done Elisa, so you don't have to wait to take a shower on the bus," teased her teammate Ellen van Dijk on Twitter.
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