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Your first Tour will be for the memory, just as it gives the outcome. Carlos Rodriguez raising his arms alone Morzine, ahead of Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar; Carlos Rodríguez storming the podium, Carlos Rodríguez suffering in the Alps, Carlos Rodríguez fallen and injured resisting in Le Markstein, saying goodbye to third place and even fourth with the honor and respect he deserves a race that will hear about him again. 22 years, a thousand lessons for the boy from Almuñécar. The last one yesterday, where fate awaited him, the one that so often has to be overcome in the cruel Grande Boucle.

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Pogacar says goodbye with a triumph of rage in Le Markstein

  • Editor: LUCAS SÁEZ-BRAVO (Special Envoy)Le Markstein

Pogacar says goodbye with a triumph of rage in Le Markstein

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Tour de France.

The privileged mind of Carlos Rodríguez, the Spaniard who excites in the Tour: "He has the mentality of an engineer"

  • Editor: LUCAS SÁEZ-BRAVO (Special Envoy)Bordeaux

The privileged mind of Carlos Rodríguez, the Spaniard who excites in the Tour: "He has the mentality of an engineer"

If by his engineer's mind he spent a last day attacking, hurrying the assault on the podium lost in Courchevel, disturbing the Yates brothers, soon everything was ruin for Carlos. In a fast left-hand corner, when the firecrackers of an electric day were already sounding ahead, the bike went over him and Sepp Kuss passed him over at high speed. It could have been worse. The Spaniard, bleeding from the knee, elbow and visibly from the left eyebrow, the plasma running down his cheek, soon rejoined the group helped by Omar Fraile.

He later described it with calm unbecoming of a rookie: "I was unlucky in the descent. I don't know what happened to the wheel in front. A spoked was broken, the wheel went off-center and in a corner it went away." Moreover, at the end of the day, the INEOS was sanctioned for going trascoche at the time of reintegration to the main peloton. Despite the 20 seconds imposed by the organization, it continues to lead Pello Bilbao by another 10 for fifth place.

Everything already crooked, in the first attack of Pogacar began an ordeal that was not going to defeat him. While Simon and Adam were working as brothers against him and even Pello Bilbao was ahead of him, Rodriguez found a little encouragement in Tom Pidcock, always on his own, and then emptied himself to the finish. "The teammates have been 10, they have supported me in everything. Thank you very much to Omar and Tom in particular", pronounced the Granadan, who said goodbye with a message that speaks of his ambition, of his promises for the future: "I have given the best I had, but it has not been enough. I have to be glad we left everything to me We will come back and try to do better."

Rodríguez was the great name of the general of a Tour that was reconciled with Spanish cycling, despite the hardships of Movistar, touched from the beginning with the fall and abandonment of Enric Mas. There Pello Bilbao wore especially, sixth finally and with the brightness of the stage of Issoire, five years after that of Omar Fraile. From less to more after not excelling at the start in the Basque Country where he was expected so much, "enjoying" this Saturday the "best general" of his career. "I've had better feelings than ever. It's been a great fight, three super intense weeks, on the edge. I did not come to fight for the general and that has been the best way to face it, "he said.

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