Driver mistakes?
The Olympic silver medalist and vice world champion in the time trial also blames the driving errors of individual colleagues. “There are also female drivers at the start who make you wonder why they are there. That makes the field very heterogeneous,” said Reusser.
In addition to the 14 WorldTour teams and the three best racing teams in the Continental category, there are seven teams who were invited via wild cards. “It’s actually enough if you have one, two or three drivers who don’t quite master it or who take too much risk to cause avoidable falls,” said Reusser.
nervousness in the teams
A fall also prevented the German classics specialist Liane Lippert from intervening in the fight for the day’s victory on the 3rd stage. She fell because she could no longer avoid Demi Vollering from the Netherlands who had fallen. “It’s a shame. I had good legs, wasn’t in big trouble on the mountain and was always in control,” said Lippert. But then came the fall. After all, the driver from Friedrichshafen did not suffer any serious injuries.
Ronny Lauke, head of the German racing team Canyon SRAM, sees one reason for the unrest in the peloton in the weak nerves of some of his colleagues. “You can already see the restlessness in the convoy of escort vehicles. Some keep leaving their position and then gymnastics around in front of you. And this nervousness, which some team managers and sport directors bring with them and which is really visible, then transfers to the drivers,” said Lauke.