Australian sprinter makes time cut on stage 14 by nine minutes.
But in the Tour things turn around really quickly, I felt like a good day yesterday [Friday] until I crashed, then I had a shocker again today so you never know. Yet even if his Grand Tour struggles this year stretch back to his very challenging Giro d'Italia, which he called a 'Giro from hell', Ewan remains upbeat and determined to try in the few Tour de France stages that remain. Caleb Ewan had been dropped some 10 kilometres after the start of the stage from Saint Étienne to Mende, but with a cohort of three Lotto-Soudal teammates, Tim Wellens, Frederik Frison and Reinhardt Janse Van Rensburg, he was able to get through again.
Alpecin-Fenix DS Michel Cornelisse accuses bike commissaire of having 'no feelings' after incident.
With Ewan, I was already driving 80 km/h behind the car and there were motorcycles in front. Ewan was almost at the cars, so I don’t know why that man was so concerned.” Then the commissioner came, and I tried to accelerate, but there were two police motorcycles in front of me.
Caleb Ewan and Alpecin-Deceuninck have been fined for drafting manoeuvres after a crash on the approach into Saint-Etienne on Stage 13 of the Tour de ...
The Australian acknowledged his difficult run and said: "I feel like I can’t catch a break with my luck. I did a big chase to get back on, and then on the last climb I think they were going quite hard and I had nothing left." Tour de France Instead, he now faces the prospect of riding hurt, or dropping out altogether. It was not a rider from my own team who was behind my car and that boy had fallen. Tour de France
Alpecin-Fenix's sports director Christophe Roodhooft was fined for pacing the Australian.
yesterday I had a smashed helmet, so the obvious thing for me to do was to sit there and get checked by the doctors before I got back on my bike and kept going. "I think the thing is, the UCI are always talking about our safety, and if they want us to sit on the side of the road and actually get checked… Christoph Roodhooft, sports director at Alpecin, was fined for 500CHF, even though the driver of the car was Michel Cornelisse.
Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) has hit out at the UCI after he and Alpecin-Deceuninck were fined following his crash and attempt to return to the race on Stage ...
The obvious thing to do was to get checked by a doctor before I got back on my bike and got going. Ewan was almost at the cars, so I don't know why the guy was so upset." “I wasn’t even getting taken back to the bunch but a dropped group. Ewan pedalled hard in the slipstream of the Alpecin-Deceuninck team car and made significant headway back to the peloton travelling rapidly with the draft provided by the vehicle. Ewan criticised the UCI system for dealing with injured riders and their return to the race in his situation. I was sitting by the side of the road with a smashed helmet.