Mavi García, on the ground, hit by her team’s car

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You have to go to the vineyards with a tractor. Or if you want to go by bike, let it be a mountain bike, with the wheels as fat as possible to maintain balance with stones that stick and pierce the tubes. Abusing in professional races, whether men or women who ride the bike, on unpaved terrain, beyond the Strade Bianche, is something that should be controlled. One thing is the epic of the stones of the ‘Hell of the North’ and the other is laying unpaved sections that, mistakenly and far from the territories of Tuscany, should not be called ‘sterrato’.

Spanish cycling has been riding the jinxed Tour for years, at least since Alberto counter Y Purito Rodriguez They stopped competing. There is no way to turn the situation around, because time and time again something happens, something that knocks down the illusions of cyclists like Mavi García, who although she avoided a catastrophe, who although she has a complicated general but not lost after leaving a minute and a half with the main favorites, it is no longer in this privileged situation to which it reached the unpaved sections, four were scheduled, where least cross a black cat everything happened to him. A day to forget and hoping that the injuries caused by his fall, after suffering two breakdowns, do not cause him more problems than the usual pain after an impact with the ground.

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He had a breakdown in the first of the four sectors and in the penultimate punctured. It did not seem that the situation was very serious, in an inevitable chase to catch the group where the leader was going Marianne Vos, when she was incomprehensibly run over by her own team’s car. Seeing is believing. The UEA vehicle took her from the front, hitting the rear wheel of her bike: a smack in the elbow, in one hand and above all the rage of seeing how all the favorites escaped her when she was about to solve the one she could be the last complicated situation of the stage.

mavi garcia came off the hook and fell from sixth to 11th place overall, in a fourth stage marked by the breakaway and victory of the Swiss Marlen Reusser, Olympic time trial runner-up. This Thursday more wood, although the stage is somewhat less complicated on paper.



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